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Memo from President Roberts: Federal Government shutdown

Important Update from UMWA President Cecil Roberts on Government Shutdown Impacts   The following memo from UMWA President Cecil Roberts…

Black Tuesday Lives in Us: A Union’s Commitment to Canada

September 29, 2025 On September 29, 1931, the streets of Estevan, Saskatchewan, ran dark with tragedy, defiance, and the blood…

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United Mine Workers of America hosts 87th Labor Day Picnic

Source: 13News Date: Sept. 1, 2025   RACINE, W.Va. (WOWK) — With picnics and celebrations happening across the tri-state, one picnic is celebrating the work of coal miners and the impact they have on our lives. Food grilling, sun shining and families coming together are staples of the Labor Day weekend. But for coal miners, […]

UMWA President Cecil Roberts Attends His Final Mannington Labor Day Picnic

Source: Coalzoom.com   September 3, 2025 – After leading the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) for 30 years, Cecil Roberts attended his final Labor Day Picnic in Mannington’s Hough Park. Roberts assumed the presidency in 1995 when then-president Richard Trumpka left the UMWA after being elected as secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Roberts won the first of […]

Union Plus: Travel Tours

Explore the world!   Get exclusive union savings on once-in-a-lifetime tours to all corners of the globe. This is the year you make your travel dreams a reality! Plan your trip In partnership with       170 tours on all seven continents!   Set out to Explore in ’25! Travelers, this one’s for you! […]

To My Brothers and Sisters of the Navajo Nation

Yá’át’ééh shik’éí dóó shidine’é, I’m writing to you not just as a representative of the United Mine Workers of America, but as a fellow Diné brother who walks the same land, breathes the same air, and knows the value of hard, honest work. I live here among you—on the Nation—and I see what you see […]

Nal-NiSHii Federation of Labor – Labor Union Fair

  UMWA INVITES YOU TO THE LABOR UNION FAIR IN WINDOW ROCK!   Date: Monday, August 4 Time: 11:30 AM MT Location: Window Rock, Arizona      Brothers and Sisters, we are calling on YOU to join us at a truly historic event: the Labor Union Fair in Window Rock! This isn’t just a gathering—it’s […]

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