The workers are getting by on $60 in strike benefits a week.

The striking miners have received $200 a week in strike benefits from their union.

Faced with the union cutting off their $300-a-week strike benefits, the workers have little choice but to return when they are recalled to work.

She said the main reason for the union's insolvency was the $5.2 million in strike benefits that Local 144 paid out last year.

The was forced to discontinue strike benefits in February, 1915.

The strikers will be eligible for strike benefits of $55 a week from their union.

Among them were doubts that the pilots' union members would vote to continue strike benefits at Eastern.

The union pays strike benefits of $150 a week only to workers out on strike.

While the workers' strike benefits are only $150 a week, most have ample savings from their years of extensive overtime.

A. The strike lasted seven months and there were no strike benefits back then.

Union strike benefits and unemployment insurance have cushioned the blow somewhat, many people said.

The Council urged all of its members to honor picket lines, while offering strike benefits, as well.

In the past, the union has paid strike benefits with the understanding that it would be repaid once unemployment checks showed up.

Union finances were shot, in part because the old guard had boosted strike benefits without raising dues.

Payment of $200 weekly strike benefits would disrupt the $70 million annual flow into the union coffers.

The moves were intended in part to finance strike benefits in a walkout.

But last week the strikers said their union strike benefits and unemployment insurance had run out, compelling them to take or seek jobs elsewhere.

The assessments have financed strike benefits of $600 a week for Eastern pilots on strike.

Mr. Vazquez said that the strike benefits and the $264 he expected to collect in unemployment insurance would help.

The strikers blamed their parent union for doing little for them - it did not even provide strike benefits.

The union is paying $250 a week in strike benefits, and has promised strikers help with rent if they face eviction.

The union's executive board had voted to raise strike benefits from $55 a week to $200, but made no provision for funding the higher benefits.

Mr. Caraballo also receives $7 in strike benefits for each day he pickets.

Mr. Horn is angry that the union did not provide strike benefits and did little to rally support from the labor movement.

During the strike he struggled to support his wife and four children with strike benefits of $200 a month and occasional part-time jobs.