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Oct. 28, 2024

UMWA Project 50: Volume IV

Preserving Pensions & Health Care           Taking on the Tough Challenges A growing surge of federal…

Oct. 23, 2024

House Committee Advances Bill to Block New Silica Dust Rule

  [caption id="attachment_24668" align="alignnone" width="453"] On September 24th President Roberts, Secretary-Treasurer Sanson and UMWA members were on Capitol Hill demanding…

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…

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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 […]

Jul. 8, 2024

Hall of Fame Inductees Donnie Samms and UMWA Honorary Member Rodney Torbic

      Brother Donnie Samms and UMWA Honorary Member Father Rodney Torbic Inducted into Washington Greene Labor Council Hall of Fame On April 20, 2024, at a banquet in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, two UMWA greats, in their own right, were inducted into the Washington Greene County Central Labor Council Hall of Fame, At-Large International Vice […]

Jul. 2, 2024

100th Anniversary of Benwood Mine Disaster

BENWOOD MINE DISASTER’S LEGACY LIVES ON AS A TESTAMENT TO THE RESILIENCE AND SPIRIT OF THE MINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO CONTINUE TO FACE THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING IN THE COAL INDUSTRY.   At the conclusion of the bell tolls for the 21 lives lost on the job last year in West Virginia, the ceremony […]

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