Miners

May 2, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

"We are going to stand up, fight back and go to jail for our members - and that is something Peabody can't buy."

April 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Deaths and injuries in the nation's mines, including its coal mines, fell in 2012 to some of their lowest recorded levels.

April 5, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1989, the United Mine Workers began their historic strike against Pittston Coal.

March 27, 2013 By Special to People’s World

She was banished from more towns and was held incommunicado in more jails in more states than any other union leader of the time.

February 7, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Gold miners in Cripple Creek, Colorado, began a five-month strike in 1894, news of which travelled rapidly from one end of the country to the other,