About 2,000 miners in south Yorkshire coal...
About 2,000 miners in south Yorkshire coal fields joined a mushrooming wildcat strike that is turning into the biggest coal mining stoppage in Great Britain since the yearlong strike that ended in 1985. More than 12,000 miners have stopped work at 17 mines in a dispute over the reassignments of three men at the Bentley mine to other duties because British Coal, their employer, claimed that they were not working hard enough.
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