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Jun. 30, 2025

Members Only - UMWA Reaches Agreement with Bella Healthcare

  The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and Bella Healthcare have reached an agreement. Effective February 17, 2025, Local 2003…

Jun. 27, 2025

Remembering Ludlow

Source: World Journal Date: June 26, 2025   Hundreds gathered at UMWA site for 111th annual memorial ceremony   LUDLOW…

Jun. 25, 2025

Union Plus: Legal Program

Open Enrollment: Legal support at a price you can afford.   Need legal help? Get premium legal services for just $22.95/month —…

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Apr. 8, 2022

Unions rally for striking Alabama miners

SOURCE: al.com DATE: April 6, 2022 Representatives of labor unions from around the country were expected today at Tannehill State Park for a rally in support of striking coal miners with the United Mine Workers of America. The miners began a strike more than a year ago against Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood. The UMWA […]

Apr. 8, 2022

Opinion: From Amazon to Warrior Met, unions need government protections

By Sherrod Brown Democrat Sherrod Brown is the senior senator from Ohio.   A year ago, more than a thousand coal miners with the United Mine Workers of America dropped their tools and walked out of the Warrior Met Coal Mine in Brookwood, Ala. Today, their strike continues, making it one of the longest strikes in recent […]

Mar. 31, 2022

Warrior Met Coal strike reaches one year mark, possibly longest in Alabama history: ‘We didn’t want to do this’

Source: al.com March 31, 2022   “We didn’t want to do this.”   United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil Roberts said the words in thinking back on the last year, one day short of the first anniversary of the union’s strike against Warrior Met Coal.   It is believed to be the longest […]

Mar. 21, 2022

82 Year Commemoration of the Willow Grove Mining Disaster

Source: WTRF.com March 20, 2022   BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO (WTRF)- It has been 82 years since the tragic Willow Grove Mine accident. On March 16, 1940, an explosion ripped through the Willow Grove Mine, taking the life of 72 workers. To honor the lives that were lost, family and community members gathered at the mine […]

Mar. 18, 2022

Energy startup to bring electric battery factory to W.Va.

SOURCE: AP DATE: 3/17/22 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The energy startup SPARKZ said Thursday it plans to build an electric battery factory in West Virginia in 2022 that will employ at least 350 people. The company will partner with the United Mine Workers of America to recruit and train dislocated miners to be the factory’s […]

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