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Negotiations between Phelps Dodge and the unions failed to reach an agreement, and a strike began on midnight of July 30, including workers from Morenci, Ajo, Clifton, and Douglas, Arizona. Thousands of miners walked out and a picket line was formed at the Morenci Mine.
19 Αυγ 2023 · Forty years ago, Clifton miners went on strike at the largest copper mine in North America - then the union was crushed and dissolved, but its effects still reverberate not only in the...
Clifton, a once-booming frontier mining town in southeast Arizona, has suffered through labor strikes and the ups and downs of mining and floods, yet still survives and is the location of one of the world’s largest deposits of copper.
This motivated PD to shatter the union, wiping out thirty Union Locals comprised of over two thousands workers (p. 10). PD’s President, Richard Moolick stated in 1983, “I had decided to break the unions” (p. 91). Primary parties: Phelps Dodge Copper Company. The Copper Union.
18 Αυγ 2023 · Forty years ago, Clifton miners went on strike at the largest copper mine in North America. Then the union was crushed and dissolved, sending shock waves through organized labor.
4 Σεπ 2023 · A closeup of the mural depicting the 1983 miners' strike in Clifton. Here, Arizona law enforcement and the National Guard members march on striking copper miners, launch tear gas into...
31 Αυγ 2018 · Undercover agents with the Arizona State Criminal Intelligence Systems Agency (ACISA) infiltrated every union in the Clifton and Morenci mining district early in the strike, bugging nearly one out of every two meetings and monitoring the rest with informers.
