coal miners
The Ludlow Massacre: Never to be forgotten!
April 18, 2014The tragic, brutal and deadly attack on striking miners and their families shocked, saddened and outraged working people and most Americans.
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Miners reach retiree settlement with Patriot Coal
October 11, 2013TRIANGLE, Va.- The United Mine Workers of America has reached a global settlement with Peabody Energy and Patriot Coal that will provide funding of more than $400 million to cover future health care benefits for retirees...
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Today in labor history: Labor journalist Mary Heaton Vorse is born
October 9, 2013She reported on the Lawrence textile strike, the steel strike of 1919, the textile workers strike of 1934, and coal strikes in Harlan County, Kentucky. After reporting on the Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, N....
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Senator: Coal mine owners treat workers as “property”
October 4, 2013WASHINGTON (PAI)-The nation's coal mine owners "so victimize" their workers that the workers "come as close to being property as anyone I can imagine," a leading congressional advocate for the miners says.
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Sixteen arrested in W.Va. after 11,000 march on Patriot Coal
April 2, 2013The actions, organized by UMWA, were in support of the union's campaign to save health care for retired miners and win better wages, benefits and working conditions for miners on the job.
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