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Oct. 28, 2024

UMWA Project 50: Volume IV

Preserving Pensions & Health Care           Taking on the Tough Challenges A growing surge of federal…

Oct. 23, 2024

House Committee Advances Bill to Block New Silica Dust Rule

  [caption id="attachment_24668" align="alignnone" width="453"] On September 24th President Roberts, Secretary-Treasurer Sanson and UMWA members were on Capitol Hill demanding…

Oct. 18, 2024

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a federal policy blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former…

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Oct. 28, 2024

UMWA Project 50: Volume IV

Preserving Pensions & Health Care           Taking on the Tough Challenges A growing surge of federal and state environmental laws and regulations affecting coal production. Changing priorities for fuel use by the nation’s utilities to generate electricity. Bankruptcies, and then more bankruptcies. Unfair court decisions threatening retirees’ health care and pensions. […]

Oct. 23, 2024

House Committee Advances Bill to Block New Silica Dust Rule

    The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted along party lines on Wednesday, July 10th to advance an appropriations bill for the federal Department of Labor that contains a provision to block any funding to implement the newly-finalized rule to limit miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust. The appropriations bill, which outlines how the Department […]

Oct. 18, 2024

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a federal policy blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former Trump administration officials in partnership with The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank that led the opposition to the legislation to protect UMWA retiree’s health care and pensions in 2017 and 2019. One of […]

Sep. 17, 2024

Fighting for Black Lung Benefits for Miners and Families

The National Coalition of Black Lung & Respiratory Disease Clinics, Inc. held its annual Black Lung conference at Pipestem Resort State Park in West Virginia earlier this year. President Roberts was the keynote speaker. He discussed the importance of black lung benefits and spoke kindly of an old friend, Mike South, who died from black […]

Sep. 10, 2024

Lorin E. Kerr Scholarship Winners

The UMWA has announced the winners of the 2022- 2023 Lorin E. Kerr Scholarship. Each of the winners will receive $2,500 this academic year to assist them in meeting their educational goals.   Bailey Sebroski Bailey Sebroski is the grandchild of Local Union 1473 member Robert A. James. “In college I will be studying to […]

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