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UMWA and AFL-CIO Launch Proxy Solicitation at Warrior Met Coal, Urge Stockholders to Hold Management Accountable After Costly Strike

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2024   UMWA and AFL-CIO Launch Proxy Solicitation at Warrior Met Coal, Urge Stockholders to…

UMWA Announces Tentative Agreement with Crimson Oak Grove Resources, LLC in Alabama

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2024 UMWA Announces Tentative Agreement with Crimson Oak Grove Resources, LLC in Alabama. (Adger, AL)…

UMWA Joins Fight Against Landfill

March 12, 2024 Source: Lebanon News   UMWA joins fight against landfill In recent months opponents of a proposed privately…

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Optimism returns to Grande Cache as coal mine plans to reopen

Source: CBC News There is renewed optimism in the small resource community of Grande Cache after a foreign company agreed to buy the steel making coal mine that has been shuttered for two years and helped drain the town’s population. Hundreds of jobs were wiped out in the community northwest of Edmonton after metallurgical coal […]

President Roberts end of the year message 2017

President Roberts updates the fight for our pensions and looks ahead to what’s coming next year. From all of us at the UMWA, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

Looming pension shortfalls to complicate next shutdown fight

Source: Politico.com The next potential sleeper cause of a government shutdown? Pensions. Congress barely averted a shutdown last year amid a fight over miners’ health care. Now the looming collapse of pension plans for the miners — as well as thousands of Teamster truck drivers and food service workers — is fueling another, even more […]

Miner pensions in jeopardy unless lawmakers act

Source: WTOV9 Pensions for almost 100,000 coal miners and their families are in jeopardy. Now, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin is teaming up with many Ohio Valley miners. They’re asking for other lawmakers and the public to back them. The biggest thing Manchin wanted to stress–this is not a government bailout. He says if the bill […]

Service remembers 37 miners killed in Robena Mine explosion

Source: Observer-Reporter Ray Benninghoff was at work at Fischer Body in West Mifflin 55 years ago when he was pulled aside and told his father was one of the miners missing following an explosion at the U.S. Steel Co.’s Robena No. 3 Mine. Benninghoff left work that day, Dec. 6, 1962, and went to his […]

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