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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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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 […]

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 […]

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