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Apr. 24, 2024

Members Only - UMWA Reaches Agreement with Maple Grove Center

  The United Mine Workers of America has reached a new agreement with Maple Grove Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in…

Apr. 22, 2024

UMWA's Project 50

Volume 1: Struggle & Win   Editor’s Note: Keeping the UMWA’s history alive and relevant is a critical part of…

Apr. 21, 2024

Members Only - UMWA Strikes Deal with Somerset County Commissioners

  The UMWA reached a new agreement with Somerset County in Pennsylvania, covering 38 members of Local Union 2007 in…

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May 9, 2019

May 8, 2019 Press Release from Senator Manchin’s Office

    For Immediate Release:        ICYMI: MANCHIN READS LETTERS FROM WV RETIRED MINERS ABOUT PENSIONS AND HEALTHCARE ON SENATE FLOOR Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) took to the Senate Floor today to read letters from two West Virginians, Richard and Gary. They both rely on their pensions to live in retirement and […]

May 6, 2019

American Justice and Bankruptcy

There is no other place on earth like the United States of America, where the rule of law is considered, by most citizens, to be the cornerstone of a civil society. The belief that every individual possesses equal standing in the eyes of justice to redress their grievances, seek an appropriate resolution when they are […]

May 4, 2019

Disaster at the No. 26 Colliery in Glace Bay

On February 24, 1979, fifteen Members of UMWA Local Union 4520 and a production foreman entered Cape Breton Development Corporation’s (DEVCO) Colliery No. 26 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada to begin their shift. The sixteen men, working the 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. – midnight shift – descended into the mine and made their […]

May 3, 2019

Senator urges protection of benefits

Source: Fayette Tribune The miners of West Virginia and their families are the heart and soul of the Mountain State. Generations of our patriotic coal miners have spent their lives underground in order to provide our country with energy. They have endured countless years of backbreaking work and they are proud of the role they […]

May 3, 2019

Alabama Miners Rally then March on Federal Courthouse

Miners and Families Rally at Historic Park On February 20, 2019, UMWA Members from across Alabama began arriving at Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama. The Park was named for Osmond Kelly Ingram, a local firefighter, who was the first U.S. sailor to be killed in World War I. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional […]

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