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May 9, 2025

More West Virginians are dying on the job. Federal cuts to workplace safety programs could make it worse.

Source: Mountain State Spotlight Date: May 8, 2025   West Virginia had the second-deadliest workplace fatality rate in the country,…

May 9, 2025

The Power of Solidarity

  Fayette County Corrections Officers Transform Their Workplace   With the ratification of a new contract boosting starting pay to…

May 7, 2025

Helping Appalachia

    Heavy rains and melting snow caused widespread flooding in the Appalachian region, killing at least nine people. UMWA’s…

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Dec. 11, 2017

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 […]

Dec. 7, 2017

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 […]

Dec. 6, 2017

Robena remembered: 55 years later

Source: Herald Standard  Fifty-five years later, Marcella Sarson’s voice still wavers when she considers the lives she saw torn apart at Robena Mine. “It still is a very brutal thing to face,” Sarson says. First for Sarson and her parents came the drive through bitter cold from Bobtown to a Robena lamp house while rescue […]

Dec. 5, 2017

Court dismisses Consol appeal in retired miners’ benefits case

Source: Post Gazette  United Mine Workers of America is claiming a small win after a West Virginia judge dismissed Consol Energy’s appeal in a retiree health benefit case. The ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals leaves in place a temporary injunction requiring the energy company to keep providing benefits while a broader […]

Nov. 30, 2017

UMWA wins another round in battle to preserve CONSOL retiree health care benefits

[TRIANGLE, VA] The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on November 28 dismissed an appeal by CONSOL Energy that sought to overturn a federal judge’s decision requiring CONSOL to continue paying for health care benefits to some 3,400 retired miners – members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) – their dependents and widows. Judge […]

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