Justice in the Coalfields

Justice in the Coalfields

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1995

Runtime

0h 57m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Justice in the Coalfields

Director

Anne Lewis Johnson

Description

This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people. The documentary follows the 1988 United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal Company that followed the expiration of their contract and Pittston's termination of the medical benefits of 1,500 pensioners, widows, and disabled miners.