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Union Plus – Hearing Care Discounts

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Breathless and Betrayed Hearing

Breathless and Betrayed Coal miners are suffering an unprecedented spike in the most severe form of black lung disease. On June 20, President Cecil Roberts spoke to the committee about the need for action!

President Roberts Speaking on Capitol Hill about the Resurgence of Black Lung in the United States

Mining Unions Call For a New MSHA Silica Standard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 19, 2019   (Pittsburgh) – Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mine Workers of America, and Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers International Union, today called for a new standard to protect miners from silica dust. The request came in a letter to David Zatezalo, the head of the Mine […]

Black lung resurgence fires up Democrats

Source: E&E News June 18, 2019 A spike in the number of cases of black lung disease has put federal regulators in the crosshairs of the new House Democratic majority. With a hearing titled “Breathless and Betrayed,” the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections appears ready to take the Department of Labor’s Mine […]