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UMWA and AFL-CIO Launch Proxy Solicitation at Warrior Met Coal, Urge Stockholders to Hold Management Accountable After Costly Strike

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2024   UMWA and AFL-CIO Launch Proxy Solicitation at Warrior Met Coal, Urge Stockholders to…

UMWA Announces Tentative Agreement with Crimson Oak Grove Resources, LLC in Alabama

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2024 UMWA Announces Tentative Agreement with Crimson Oak Grove Resources, LLC in Alabama. (Adger, AL)…

UMWA Joins Fight Against Landfill

March 12, 2024 Source: Lebanon News   UMWA joins fight against landfill In recent months opponents of a proposed privately…

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How Private Equity Firms Caused The UMWA Strike In Brookwood

February 18, 2022 Source: Patch.com Here’s an in-depth look at how ongoing business practices have impacted striking blue-collar workers for one west Alabama coal producer.   BROOKWOOD, AL — There’s a little wooden shelter at the intersection of Lock 17 Road and Miners Memorial Parkway in Brookwood that sat vacant on Friday. The site, which […]

UMWA Senate Hearing

Warrior Met and Wall Street Greed: What Corporate Raiders are Doing to Workers and Consumers   Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Room SH-216       Agenda There will be a Hearing of the Committee on the Budget  On:  Thursday, February 17, 2022, 11:00 AM In:  Room SH-216 To consider:  Warrior Met and Wall Street Greed: What Corporate Raiders […]

Union Plus: Scholarships for Members and Their Children

SOURCE: Union Plus   Since 1991, the Union Plus Scholarship Program has awarded more than $5 million to students of working families who want to begin or continue their post-secondary education. More than 3,400 families have benefited from our commitment to higher education.   How the Union Plus Scholarship Program works Eligibility Current and retired […]

Alabama coalminers on strike for 10 months vow not to be ‘starved out’

SOURCE: The Guardian January 25, 2022 Alabama coal miners on strike for 10 months vow not to be ‘starved out’ About 1,100 coalminers in Alabama have entered 2022 still on strike, more than 10 months since they walked out back in April last year, making it the longest strike in the US since the Covid-19 […]

Scott, Adams Introduce Bill to Protect Future Benefits, Health Care for Miners with Black Lung Disease

  January 20, 2022 WASHINGTON – Today, Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairwoman Alma Adams (NC-12), introduced the Black Lung Benefits Disability Trust Fund Solvency Act of 2022 (H.R. 6462). This legislation would extend the black lung excise tax rate, which expired at the end of last year, to fund […]

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