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Apr. 25, 2024

UMWA’s Roberts comments on EPA’s new Carbon Pollution Standards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 25, 2024   UMWA’s comments on EPA’s new Carbon Pollution Standards [TRANGLE, V.A.] Commenting on the…

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…

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Feb. 5, 2021

Powder River Basin coal mine ceases operations, asks court to reject pension and health care obligations

Source: Star Tribune February 5, 2021   APowder River Basin coal mine has closed down for the first time in modern history. At the end of January, mining ceased at the Decker coal mine in Montana after the owner of the mine filed for bankruptcy late last year. Home to some of the world’s largest […]

Feb. 5, 2021

Remington’s new owner talks strike, union says no way

Source: Times Union February 4, 2021   Owner raises prospect of stoppage but union says they have no plans to strike ILION — Strike? What strike? That’s what officials of the union representing laid-off employees of the Remington Outdoor gun factory here are saying after the company’s new owner raised the prospect of a labor […]

Feb. 5, 2021

BC Labour Heritage Center Plaque Unveiling

Source: BC Labour Heritage Centre December 12, 2021 On Saturday, December 12th, 2020, the BC Labour Heritage Centre held a virtual unveiling of the new historic plaque in Nanaimo, BC. The plaque recognizes the Great Coal Strike lasting from 1912-1914. The strike is considered the fiercest labor dispute in the province’s history. The plaque is […]

Feb. 4, 2021

UMWA’s Roberts: No one wants the Remington plant open more than the union

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 4, 2021   [ILION, N.Y.] United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today:   “I was surprised and saddened to see news reports about statements Mr. Richmond Italia apparently made regarding the workforce at the former Remington Arms plant in Ilion, New York. […]

Feb. 4, 2021

Actively Retired Charles “Hawkeye” Dixon

Local Union 1440 and District 17 Member Charles “Hawkeye” Dixon began his mining career in March of 1971 at the Island Creek No. 14 Mine in Nicholas County, West Virginia and continued working there until April of 1976. “I worked in lowcoal, about 36 inches,” said Dixon. “It was grueling work, but I knew I […]

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