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Victory for Miners in Estevan

ON JUNE 18, 2025, CROWN INVESTMENTS CORPORATION MINISTER JEREMY HARRISON ANNOUNCED THAT SASKPOWER WOULD BE REBUILDING ITS ENTIRE COAL-FIRED POWER GENERATION FLEET, INCLUDING THE BOUNDARY DAM PLANT, WHICH HAD BEEN SCHEDULED FOR CLOSURE IN THE COMING YEARS.   For eight years, members of Local Union 7606 in Estevan, Saskatchewan have been fighting to maintain their […]

Hundreds attend annual Ludlow Memorial Service

Event Renamed “Bob Butero Ludlow Remembrance Ceremony”    On June 22, 2025, the annual Ludlow Memorial outside Trinidad, Colorado, was attended by several hundred community members, UMWA members, descendants of the victims and representatives from various other unions. As always, Region IV Director and International Auditor/Teller Bob Butero emceed the event. International District 22 Vice […]

Retirees

INTERNATIONAL AUDITOR/TELLER EMERITUS BOBBY BURCHELL   Robert “Bobby” Burchell began working in the mines for Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) in Lingan, Nova Scotia, Canada in January, 1976. In December, 1982, he ran on the “Why Not the Best” slate with Richard Trumka, Cecil Roberts and John Banovic. It was a hard-fought election that ultimately […]

Cambria County Prison

New Officers Sworn In On April 15, 2025, six new corrections officers and UMWA members were sworn in at the Cambria County Prison in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Family members and other community supporters were present to witness the oaths that were taken and the speeches that were given in honor of the new cadets. The prison’s new […]

100th Anniversary of Davis Day

STANDING THE GAFF: On Hundred Years of Davis Day                         On June 11, 1925, in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, company police shot and killed William “Bill” Davis, a 37-year-old union coal miner. Davis had nine children and a tenth one on the way at […]

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