
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 8, 1993                   TAG: 9312080118
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

ACCORD REACHED TO END COAL STRIKE

Two weeks after the United Mine Workers took down their picket lines, union leaders finally reached a tentative agreement with coal operators on Tuesday to end the union's 7-month-old strike.

The agreement still must be ratified by rank-and-file miners.

Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who announced the agreement, declined to discuss its specifics, but did suggest the union got at least part of what it was looking for from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association.

One union complaint was that companies create or acquire non-union subsidiaries to deny job opportunities to union workers. "The union has reached its goal of establishing an important measure of job security," Reich said.

by CNB