Feb. 18, 2018
Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON — The sprawling agreement to boost government spendingreached by Republicans and Democrats this month quietly included a step toward defusing what could be a financial time bomb for 1.5 million retirees and hundreds of companies in the industrial Midwest and the South. The deal creates a select congressional committee to […]
Feb. 16, 2018
President Cecil Roberts gives an update on the United Mine Workers’s continued fight to preserve the pensions of retired and active miner’s.
Feb. 15, 2018
Source: E&E News The United Mine Workers of America returned to Capitol Hill this week as Congress mulls who will decide the fate of their pensions. Party leaders in both chambers have yet to select the special joint committee tasked with shoring up pensions for roughly 1.5 million union workers, including 107,000 former UMWA miners […]
Feb. 13, 2018
Source: The Navajo-Hopi Observer PHOENIX — Hundreds of Kayenta Mine and Navajo Generating Station workers marched on the Arizona State Capitol Feb. 6 to announce the formation of ‘Yes to NGS,’ a coalition that advocates for solutions to ensure the continuation of NGS operations beyond 2019. The workers were joined by members of the Navajo Nation […]
Feb. 6, 2018
Source: kjzz.org Workers from the Navajo Generating Station and the Kayenta Mine in northeast Arizona will be in Phoenix on Tuesday. They’re calling for action to save the NGS power plant, which is slated to close at the end of next year. The utility companies that co-own the Navajo Generating Station say they can get power […]
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