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Apr. 26, 2024

After strike, mine workers union pushes reform proposals before Warrior Met Coal stockholders

SOURCE: AL.COM April 25, 2024 After strike, mine workers union pushes reform proposals before Warrior Met Coal stockholders The United…

Apr. 24, 2024

Members Only - UMWA Reaches Agreement with Maple Grove Center

  The United Mine Workers of America has reached a new agreement with Maple Grove Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in…

Apr. 21, 2024

Members Only - UMWA Strikes Deal with Somerset County Commissioners

  The UMWA reached a new agreement with Somerset County in Pennsylvania, covering 38 members of Local Union 2007 in…

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Jan. 22, 2019

Navajo Nation considers NGS purchase

Source: White Mountain Independent Faced with an estimated 23-percent decline in tribal revenues from the planned December 2019, closure of the Navajo Generating Station power plant and Kayenta Coal Mine that supplies the fuel, the Navajo Nation is forging ahead with efforts to take over the operations. The Kayenta Coal Mine is owned by Peabody […]

Jan. 11, 2019

AFL-CIO 2019 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference

The Fierce Urgency of Now Join hundreds of social justice professionals, activists and community leaders in Washington, D.C., for the 2019 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference. In Dr. King’s famous 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom speech, he told a divided nation that we need one another […]

Jan. 11, 2019

Workers of bankrupt Westmoreland Coal take fight to protect retirees to company’s Englewood doorstep

Source: The Denver Post As Westmoreland Coal Co. tries to emerge from bankruptcy, union members from one of its mines are picketing at the company’s headquarters in Englewood to protest efforts to cut retirees’ health insurance and pensions. Sarah Myers, an employee at Westmoreland’s mine in Kemmerer in southwest Wyoming, said Thursday the union wants to keep […]

Jan. 10, 2019

Resources for Members Impacted by Government Shutdown

Source: Union Plus If you are a union member who participates in certain Union Plus programs and have been impacted by the 2019 Federal Government shutdown, you may be eligible for financial assistance through the Union Plus Furlough Grant Program.1 $300 Furlough Grant For eligible Union Plus Credit Cardholders2 who are furloughed or excepted due to […]

Jan. 9, 2019

Ohio Valley Senators Again Aim to Shore Up Shaky Pension Plan For Coal Miners

Source: Ohio Valley Resource Following a failed attempt to address a looming crisis in many multi-employer pension programs, two Ohio Valley lawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress to shore up the shaky pension plan for coal miners. The bill also aims to protect health benefits and restore funding for the federal trust fund providing […]

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