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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…

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…

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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 […]

Jul. 10, 2024

Department of Labor Issues Final Rule to Reduce Silica Dust Exposure

Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su AnnouncesNew Silica Standard at UMWA’s District 2 Office   On April 16, 2024, the UMWA hosted a Labor Silica Rule Kickoff Event at the District 2 Office in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The final rule significantly reduces respirable crystalline silica exposures and improves the early detection of related diseases, a rule […]

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