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Jul. 10, 2024

Department of Labor Issues Final Rule to Reduce Silica Dust Exposure

Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su AnnouncesNew Silica Standard at UMWA’s District 2 Office [caption id="attachment_21855" align="alignnone" width="500"] Acting Secretary…

Jul. 8, 2024

Hall of Fame Inductees Donnie Samms and UMWA Honorary Member Rodney Torbic

    [caption id="attachment_21845" align="alignnone" width="410"] UMWA Honorary Member Father Torbic, President Roberts and At-Large International Vice President Emeritus Donnie…

Jul. 2, 2024

100th Anniversary of Benwood Mine Disaster

BENWOOD MINE DISASTER’S LEGACY LIVES ON AS A TESTAMENT TO THE RESILIENCE AND SPIRIT OF THE MINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES…

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Jul. 10, 2024

Department of Labor Issues Final Rule to Reduce Silica Dust Exposure

Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su AnnouncesNew Silica Standard at UMWA’s District 2 Office   On April 16, 2024, the UMWA hosted a Labor Silica Rule Kickoff Event at the District 2 Office in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The final rule significantly reduces respirable crystalline silica exposures and improves the early detection of related diseases, a rule […]

Jul. 8, 2024

Hall of Fame Inductees Donnie Samms and UMWA Honorary Member Rodney Torbic

      Brother Donnie Samms and UMWA Honorary Member Father Rodney Torbic Inducted into Washington Greene Labor Council Hall of Fame On April 20, 2024, at a banquet in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, two UMWA greats, in their own right, were inducted into the Washington Greene County Central Labor Council Hall of Fame, At-Large International Vice […]

Jul. 2, 2024

100th Anniversary of Benwood Mine Disaster

BENWOOD MINE DISASTER’S LEGACY LIVES ON AS A TESTAMENT TO THE RESILIENCE AND SPIRIT OF THE MINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO CONTINUE TO FACE THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING IN THE COAL INDUSTRY.   At the conclusion of the bell tolls for the 21 lives lost on the job last year in West Virginia, the ceremony […]

Jun. 27, 2024

UMWA’s Project 50 – Volume II

Moss 3 Takeover   Editor’s Note: Keeping the UMWA’s history alive and relevant is a critical part of the union’s service to its members. If we do not know our history, then the harsh realities we overcame in the past cannot serve to guide us today. That is why we remember events like the Massey […]

May 13, 2024

Remembering the Castle Gate Mine Disaster

  On March 8, 1924, a series of explosions occurred at the Castle Gate coal mine in Carbon County, Utah. The first blast was attributed to inadequate watering down of the coal dust from the previous shift’s operations. A fire boss was investigating methane gas near the roof of the mine when his lamp went […]

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