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UMWA Announces Primary Endorsements for Federal, Statewide Races

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 28, 2024   UMWA announces primary endorsements for federal, statewide races [TRIANGLE, VA.] The United Mine…

UMWA responds to Iron Senergy threat to close Cumberland mine in Greene County, PA.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 28, 2024   UMWA responds to Iron Senergy threat to close Cumberland mine in Greene County,…

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…

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The Miners Who Fought for Workplace Safety Have a Thing or Two to Teach OSHA Right Now

Source: InTheseTimes June 2, 2020   In October 1993, Charles Patrick Hayes, or Pat, was working at a grain bin in Defuniak Springs, a small town in southern Alabama near Fairhope, where Pat was raised. Pat was knocking down corn from the walls of the silo when the crop caved off the sides and crushed […]

Nurse on front lines of COVID-19 fight on the Navajo Nation dies

Source: KOB 4 Eyewitness News   SHIPROCK, N.M.- One of the first healthcare workers to fight COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation died. Valerina Singer, also known as Val, was a longtime nurse on the Navajo Nation. As COVID-19 swept across the vast area, Singer was one of the first health care workers on the front […]

DNC council’s climate change plan overlooks energy workers and communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 4, 2020   [WASHINGTON, D.C.] United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today: “The recommendations issued today by the Democratic National Committee’s Environment and Climate Crisis Council are technologically, economically and politically unachievable. Worse, the Council puts the burden of meeting an impossible set […]

June 4, 2020 – Message from the President

UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts speaks about the current events our nation is facing.

We are all stronger together

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 2, 2020   [TRIANGLE, VA.] United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today: “The senseless murder of George Floyd last week was the latest in a long, outrageous chain of injustices suffered by African-Americans and people of color in America. It is past […]

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