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Union Savings: Calgary Roughnecks

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

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…

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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Sen. Duckworth Meets with Retired IL Mine Workers

Source: KFVS12 ILLINOIS (KFVS) – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth met with retired Illinois mine workers on Tuesday, December 11. She met with mine workers from Coulterville, Du Quoin, Millstadt and Taylorville to discuss how to protect their pensions. “Our mine workers worked hard every day in difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions because they wanted to […]

Mission Coal agreement sets $145M floor for met coal bankruptcy auction

Source: Market Intelligence  Mission Coal Co. LLC is seeking approval to enter into a stalking horse purchase agreement featuring a $145 million credit bid for the metallurgical coal company’s assets. The company’s debtor-in-possession lenders agreed to provide a stalking horse bid in the form of credit and set a floor price for auctioning the company’s Maple […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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