"Not so long ago, places like Llechwedd Slate Caverns were being dug out of the rock by workers who risked their lives... Today, slate mines, coal mines and other relics of the industrial revolution are preserved around Britain as places to explore the past".
Striking rock-drill workers are said to have threatened bus drivers bringing workers to the site, which may account for the low turnout.
At a time when Solidarity had obtained more power than its leaders had imagined they could ever get, the country was in both political and financial turmoil, rocked by workers' strikes and the inefficient economy.
Most involved truck accidents on mine property, though some resulted from rock falls and workers' being struck by machinery.
Maybe at some point we'll get a Downtown LA hotel ballroom, a red carpet, the obligatory step-and-repeat wall, starlets pumping their fists in the air going "Woo, workers rock!" Yeah.
Recruits for the drug war come from the vast, sprawling maquiladora – bonded assembly plants where, for rock-bottom wages, workers make the goods that fill America's supermarket shelves or become America's automobiles, imported duty-free.
We rode through canyons of moss-covered rock left by railroad workers blasting through boulders to lay track in the mid-1800's.
A ranger negotiated with protesters on Thursday to take down four rock walls so observatory workers could get up the mountain to do maintenance, Meisenzahl said.
The AMCU dangled a fat piece of fruit in front of the workers' eyes: rock drillers (who are the core of this strike and do the hardest work underground) earning R4,000 a month were promised R12,500 a month.
At River Gods, where the crowd is filled with high-tech workers in rock T-shirts, blue jeans and Converse sneakers, bar regulars and bewildered patrons who just stopped by for a drink, some of the players take it much more seriously.
