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Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...
‘Significant downsizing’: Federal agency job cuts hit NIOSH hard in Morgantown. Here’s why workers and local economies are vulnerable — and what to do if you’re …
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Coal industry sees hope with Trump's executive order, says mine workers' union
After President Trump signed an executive order to boost the coal industry, the labor union United Mine Workers of America is ...
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Striking Alabama Miners Are Done Playing Nice
on June 15. Courtesy of UMWA communications That was one of the picket line chants heard June 15 as several hundred members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and their allies attempted ...
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The Mine Wars: Chapter 1
The United Mine Workers of America had successfully organized other mining operations in the U.S., but West Virginia remained tightly controlled by the coal company operators.