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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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Arizona miners to rally at Capitol for power plant future

Source: San Francisco Chronicle  PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of miners and their relatives will join leaders from the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe and the United Mine Workers to rally at the state Capitol to keep open the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station, which provides power to pump water from the Colorado River to cities, tribes […]

Coal Miners’ Fund Set For Deep Cuts As Black Lung Epidemic Grows

Source: National Public Radio A new government report says that the federal black lung trust fund that helps sick and dying coal miners pay living and medical expenses could incur a $15 billion deficit in the next 30 years. That’s if a congressionally mandated funding cut occurs as planned at the end of the year. […]

Joint Select Committee on Multiemployer Pensions holds another hearing

The Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans held a public hearing on May 17, this time focusing on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and its funding problems. Dr. Thomas Reeder, the outgoing PBGC Director, was the only witness at the hearing. The PBGC was established by Congress in the 1970s […]

Sherrod Brown on protecting pensions: ‘This is not a handout’

Source: The Columbus Dispatch Pension checks are declining, leaving thousands of Ohioans grappling with how to make ends meet as their retirement funds no longer pay the bills. In a room full of retired laborers at the Teamsters Local 413 union hall on Monday, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said the special joint Senate and […]

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