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Idaho miners??? rally marks two-and-a-half-year walkout
??By Edwin Fruit
Vol. 83/No. 38
October 21, 2019
MULLAN, Idaho ??? Some 100 members of United Steelworkers Local 5114 and
supporters marched and rallied here Oct. 5, marking two and a half years
since silver miners at the Lucky Friday mine went out on strike against
Hecla Mining Company.
The company wants to gut the union-enforced system under which workers
bid on job crews based on seniority, a system miners say helps protect
their safety and lives. The company also wants to increase miners???
medical insurance payments and cut bonuses and silver premiums, an
important part of what miners take home.
Hecla bosses want to run the mine 24/7 except for two holidays a year,
Bruce Baraby, who has worked at Lucky Friday for 35 years, told the
Militant. ???In the past the company always asked for volunteers for
holiday or Sunday work,??? he said. ???Now they want to make this mandatory
for all workers. It???s not worth what your body has to go through working
underground.???
Baraby said that the mine has been operating at a limited capacity with
management personnel and about a dozen scabs who have crossed the picket
line.
At the rally, Local President Dave Roose thanked the wives and relatives
of the miners ???who have been the cornerstone of the fight, including
keeping a food bank going for the length of the strike.??? Roose told the
Militant?? that negotiations are ongoing with the company.
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