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

DATE: FRIDAY, July 20, 1990                   TAG: 9007200071
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: CLINTWOOD                                LENGTH: Short

90 HOSPITAL WORKERS IN UMW VOTE

About 90 employees at Dickenson County Medical Center were voting Thursday and today on whether to be represented by the United Mine Workers union.

Ron Baker, a Washington, D.C.-based organizing official for the union, said the UMW feels confident it will organize workers at the 4-year-old hospital.

Pro-union sentiment ran high in Dickenson County during the UMW's 10-month strike against Pittston Coal Group Inc.

The UMW is trying to revive its representation of non-coal employees through the union's 4-year-old Office of Allied Workers. UMW officials say the non-coal branch will look to organize work places not represented by a collective bargaining agent.

Hospital Administrator Robert Spera said the atmosphere at the facility has been "very civil" during the union's organizing drive.

National Labor Relations Board officials should know the results shortly after voting ends this morning, Spera said.

- Associated Press

by CNB