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Oct. 16, 2025

Associate Membership Spotlight

  Beth Mikus After attending a rally in Alabama for UMWA strikers in 2022, Beth Mikus was so moved by…

Oct. 3, 2025

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…

Sep. 29, 2025

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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Oct. 1, 2023

Local Union 717 Ratifies New Contract

  On June 16, 2023, Local Union 717 members at the Rem Arms plant in Ilion, New York, ratified a new contract, bringing an end to their long struggle to preserve jobs and the UMWA after Remington Arms filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and shuttered the Ilion plant. As a result of the 2020 bankruptcy, […]

Sep. 6, 2023

The legacy of the United Mine Workers of America

This Labor Day, we explore the history of a labor organization that spurred the growth of many others in the U.S.—and made a lasting impact on economic justice for all. DATE: 8/24/2023 SOURCE: AFSC AUTHOR: Rick Wilson, Director of AFSC’s West Virginia Economic Justice Project     In happier times, my home state of West […]

Aug. 24, 2023

Associate Membership Spotlight

Carol Smith   Carol Smith has been an associate member since 2018 but has supported the UMWA for far much longer. Her husband, Carl “Sonny” Smith, is a retired coal miner from Local Union 2161 in District 12. Carol has lobbied on Capitol Hill fighting for health care and pensions, made phone calls to politicians, […]

Aug. 17, 2023

Lorin E. Kerr Scholarship Winners!

The UMWA has announced the winners of the 2023-2024 Lorin E. Kerr Scholarship. Each of the winners will receive $2,500 this academic year to assist them in meeting their educational goals.   Tyler Leonard Tyler Leonard is the grandson of Local Union 1810 member Lawrence Leonard, Sr., in District 31. “My parents struggled with fair […]

Aug. 11, 2023

Coal miners plead with feds for stronger enforcement during emotional hearing on black lung rule

Source: APNews August 10, 2023   BEAVER, W.Va. (AP) — Laboring to breathe, West Virginia coal miner Terry Lilly told federal regulators Thursday he is appreciative the U.S. government is finally considering a proposal to limit the poisonous rock dust causing a severe resurgence of black lung. But Lilly said the rule — a half-century in the […]

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