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Oct. 18, 2024

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a federal policy blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former…

Sep. 17, 2024

Fighting for Black Lung Benefits for Miners and Families

The National Coalition of Black Lung & Respiratory Disease Clinics, Inc. held its annual Black Lung conference at Pipestem Resort…

Sep. 10, 2024

Lorin E. Kerr Scholarship Winners

The UMWA has announced the winners of the 2022- 2023 Lorin E. Kerr Scholarship. Each of the winners will receive…

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Oct. 18, 2024

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a federal policy blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former Trump administration officials in partnership with The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank that led the opposition to the legislation to protect UMWA retiree’s health care and pensions in 2017 and 2019. One of […]

Sep. 17, 2024

Fighting for Black Lung Benefits for Miners and Families

The National Coalition of Black Lung & Respiratory Disease Clinics, Inc. held its annual Black Lung conference at Pipestem Resort State Park in West Virginia earlier this year. President Roberts was the keynote speaker. He discussed the importance of black lung benefits and spoke kindly of an old friend, Mike South, who died from black […]

Sep. 10, 2024

Lorin E. Kerr Scholarship Winners

The UMWA has announced the winners of the 2022- 2023 Lorin E. Kerr Scholarship. Each of the winners will receive $2,500 this academic year to assist them in meeting their educational goals.   Bailey Sebroski Bailey Sebroski is the grandchild of Local Union 1473 member Robert A. James. “In college I will be studying to […]

Aug. 27, 2024

UMWA’s Project 50 – Volume III

Gaining Strength for Our Future   Editor’s Note: Keeping the UMWA’s history alive and relevant is a critical part of the union’s service to its members. If we do not know our history, then the harsh realities we overcame in the past cannot serve to guide us today. That is why we remember events like […]

Aug. 20, 2024

New Silica Rule Funding Challenged

A DIRECT ATTACK ON THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF COAL MINERS The U.S. House Appropriations committee voted on July 10, along party lines, to advance a bill that would defund the Department of Labor’s efforts to enforce the new silica rule. The bill, which directs funding for the DOL and MSHA, explicitly states that no […]

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