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Oct. 16, 2025

Associate Membership Spotlight

  Beth Mikus After attending a rally in Alabama for UMWA strikers in 2022, Beth Mikus was so moved by…

Oct. 3, 2025

Memo from President Roberts: Federal Government shutdown

Important Update from UMWA President Cecil Roberts on Government Shutdown Impacts   The following memo from UMWA President Cecil Roberts…

Oct. 1, 2025

Union Veterans Council: Government Shutdown is a Financial Attack on Veteran Federal Workers and Active-Duty Military

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 1, 2025 CONTACT: Craig Romanovich, 412-708-4818,  local433craig@gmail.com Government Shutdown is a Financial Attack on Veteran Federal…

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Dec. 3, 2018

Retired from Kemmerer coal mine, workers plead for pensions in company bankruptcy

Source: Casper Star Tribune Perry Norris, 65, worked at the Kemmerer coal mine for 40 years. For four decades he worked three shift rotations. He broke an elbow at the mine in southern Wyoming, broke his back and picked up a persistent cough from years of inhaling dust, he explained in a handwritten letter submitted […]

Dec. 3, 2018

Westmoreland Coal Asks Bankruptcy Judge Permission to Pay Bonuses for Top Managers

Source: KTVQ.com BILLINGS- Westmoreland Coal, the owner of three coal mines in Montana and one in Wyoming, is asking a federal bankruptcy judge for permission to pay bonuses to 243 of its top managers. In a filing this week, Englewood, Colo.-based Westmoreland said the bonuses would total $1.5 million per quarter as the bankruptcy proceeds and average $6,000 per […]

Nov. 30, 2018

President Roberts’ Joint Select Committee Update

President Roberts’ gives an update on the Joint Select Committee and the United Mine Workers’ continued fight to secure the hard earned pensions our miners deserve.

Nov. 30, 2018

UMWA sues Mine Safety and Health Administration for unlawfully lifting POV status at Affinity mine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 30, 2019 [TRIANGLE, VA.] The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) yesterday filed a complaint in the United States District Court for Southern District of West Virginia, charging that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) unlawfully released Pocahontas Coal Company, LLC’s Affinity Mine from MSHA’s Pattern of Violations (POV) […]

Nov. 30, 2018

Robena Mine memorial service to take place on Dec. 6

Source: Greene County Messenger A memorial service will take place on December 6 to honor the miners who died 56 years ago in an explosion at U.S. Steel Corp’s Robena Mine No. 3. The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) will begin the service at 11 a.m. at the Robena Monument on Route 21 in […]

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