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Nov. 4, 2025

Union Savings: Calgary Roughnecks

  Score Big – Up to 30% Off Tickets! We’re pleased to share that our union members now have access…

Nov. 3, 2025

A changing of the guard for the UMWA

Source: West Virginia MetroNews Date: October 29, 2025 ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The torch has been passed in one of…

Oct. 31, 2025

Brian Sanson Sworn In as New President of the United Mine Workers of America

SOURCE: WOAY Date: October 31, 2025 West Virginia (WOAY)- The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) has a new leader…

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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 […]

Jan. 9, 2019

GUEST EDITORIAL: Coal Companies, Politicians are Derelict in Care

Source: Times West Virginian  Many a local man has spent decades digging coal in the dark, damp and dangerous mines of southern West Virginia, providing enough dirty black mineral to build and power a nation. And now, many of those men, tethered to an oxygen tank, are struggling to breathe. They are victims of black […]

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