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May 7, 2025

Helping Appalachia

    Heavy rains and melting snow caused widespread flooding in the Appalachian region, killing at least nine people. UMWA’s…

Mar. 18, 2025

Wilberg Mine Disaster 40 Years Later

  We Never Forget   December 19, 2024, marked the 40th anniversary of the Wilberg Mine Disaster that claimed the…

Mar. 14, 2025

An Interview with Secretary-Treasurer Sanson

  “WE WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE ACTION TO SECURE THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND VOICE OF ALL WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.”…

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Mar. 7, 2025

Special International Convention

  SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI ON OCTOBER 28-29, 2025     Brothers and Sisters, the United Mine Workers of America has a history of struggles and victories. Our union is 135 years old, and we want to be around for another 135 years. It is my duty, as your president, to make […]

Oct. 28, 2024

UMWA Project 50: Volume IV

Preserving Pensions & Health Care           Taking on the Tough Challenges A growing surge of federal and state environmental laws and regulations affecting coal production. Changing priorities for fuel use by the nation’s utilities to generate electricity. Bankruptcies, and then more bankruptcies. Unfair court decisions threatening retirees’ health care and pensions. […]

Oct. 23, 2024

House Committee Advances Bill to Block New Silica Dust Rule

    The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted along party lines on Wednesday, July 10th to advance an appropriations bill for the federal Department of Labor that contains a provision to block any funding to implement the newly-finalized rule to limit miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust. The appropriations bill, which outlines how the Department […]

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 […]

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