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Jun. 30, 2025

Members Only - UMWA Reaches Agreement with Bella Healthcare

  The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and Bella Healthcare have reached an agreement. Effective February 17, 2025, Local 2003…

Jun. 27, 2025

Remembering Ludlow

Source: World Journal Date: June 26, 2025   Hundreds gathered at UMWA site for 111th annual memorial ceremony   LUDLOW…

Jun. 25, 2025

Union Plus: Legal Program

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Dec. 7, 2018

Those lost in Robena Mine disaster remembered

Source: Herald Standard MASONTOWN – Each coal miner killed in an accident or by black lung has a ripple effect that impacts countless others, UMWA International President Cecil Roberts told the crowd gathered on a chilly Thursday morning to remember the Robena Mine disaster 56 years ago. Roberts pointed to the estimated 250,000 miners who […]

Dec. 5, 2018

Union Plus Scholarship

Source: Union Plus Tell your union friends and family: the new Union Plus Scholarship application is open! Since 1991, the Union Plus Scholarship Program has awarded more than $4.3 million to students of working families who want to begin or continue their post-secondary education. Start your application online ahead of the Jan 31, 2019 deadline.

Dec. 4, 2018

Coal miners: Westmoreland bosses for naughty list, not bonuses

Source: WyoFile KEMMERER — Westmoreland Coal Company’s Nov. 26 bankruptcy motion that seeks to pay bonuses to mid-level “valued employees” is a “disgusting, despicable” act that ignores actual miners, a union official said last week. Westmoreland is asking a Texas bankruptcy judge to let it reward 243 of its 1,723 U.S. employees with a total of up to […]

Dec. 3, 2018

Retired from Kemmerer coal mine, workers plead for pensions in company bankruptcy

Source: Casper Star Tribune Perry Norris, 65, worked at the Kemmerer coal mine for 40 years. For four decades he worked three shift rotations. He broke an elbow at the mine in southern Wyoming, broke his back and picked up a persistent cough from years of inhaling dust, he explained in a handwritten letter submitted […]

Dec. 3, 2018

Westmoreland Coal Asks Bankruptcy Judge Permission to Pay Bonuses for Top Managers

Source: KTVQ.com BILLINGS- Westmoreland Coal, the owner of three coal mines in Montana and one in Wyoming, is asking a federal bankruptcy judge for permission to pay bonuses to 243 of its top managers. In a filing this week, Englewood, Colo.-based Westmoreland said the bonuses would total $1.5 million per quarter as the bankruptcy proceeds and average $6,000 per […]

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