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Sep. 4, 2025

Mannington Labor Day Picnic takes place amid eroding labor law landscape

Source: Times West Virginian Date: August 30, 2025   FAIRMONT — As the Trump Administration unravels the successes of the labor movement, union…

Sep. 4, 2025

UMWA Labor Day event honors past union sacrifices and ongoing fight for worker rights

Source: Eyewitness News Date: Sept. 2, 2025   BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — Cecil Roberts has served as the UMWA president…

Sep. 4, 2025

United Mine Workers of America hosts 87th Labor Day Picnic

Source: 13News Date: Sept. 1, 2025   RACINE, W.Va. (WOWK) — With picnics and celebrations happening across the tri-state, one…

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Feb. 1, 2019

Ten Things To Know Before Purchasing A Home

Source: Union Plus Are you planning to buy a home this year? The more information gathering you do before making your decision, the greater your satisfaction is likely to be before, during and after your move. To get you started, here are ten things to know before buying a home. When you are ready to buy […]

Jan. 23, 2019

Westmoreland Coal creditors to take over its core assets

Source: S&P Global Westmoreland Coal Co.’s creditors are slated to take over its core assets after the company did not secure another qualified bid for the mines. The creditors served as a stalking horse bidder during Westmoreland’s Chapter 11 proceedings and will acquire the coal producer’s core assets, including its Canadian business and operations at […]

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 […]

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