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UMWA Joins Fight Against Landfill

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

Memorial service honors 72 men who died in the Willow Grove Mine explosion

Date: 03/09/2024 Source: WTRF Author: Mary Flavin     BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WTRF) — On March 16, 1940, 72 men…

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Labor unions sue Trump admin for COVID-19 protections

Source: E&E News June 16, 2020   Two prominent labor unions sued the Trump administration today to force mine safety officials to take steps to protect workers from contracting COVID-19. The disease caused by the new coronavirus poses “grave danger” to miners who work in close proximity, the petition says. It was filed by the United Mine […]

UMWA raising $1 million for WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital

Source: WVU Today June 11, 2020   A grassroots effort to honor United Mine Workers of America President Cecil E. Roberts aims to raise $1 million for the new WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital. Roberts is a native of West Virginia and sixth-generation coal miner. As UMWA’s president for nearly 25 years, he has championed the rights of […]

CCS facility at Boundary Dam was online for 99 per cent of May

Source: Pipeline News June 10, 2020 The carbon capture and storage facility at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station was online for 99 per cent of May, according to data released by SaskPower on Tuesday. The facility came offline for seven hours due to an inadvertent compressor outage. In the previous 12 months, the facility had […]

Protecting Correctional Officers during the Pandemic

Source: In Public Safety June 10, 2020   When we look back as a nation on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will undoubtedly acknowledge the tragedy and upheaval it caused. But hopefully we will also recognize the necessary changes that the illness prompted.   Spread of COVID-19 in Corrections The virus has taken […]

The Miners Who Fought for Workplace Safety Have a Thing or Two to Teach OSHA Right Now

Source: InTheseTimes June 2, 2020   In October 1993, Charles Patrick Hayes, or Pat, was working at a grain bin in Defuniak Springs, a small town in southern Alabama near Fairhope, where Pat was raised. Pat was knocking down corn from the walls of the silo when the crop caved off the sides and crushed […]

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