coal miners
Miners press Manchin to choose between them and the coal bosses
January 11, 2022The pressure on him to back Build Back Better, coming from the United Mine Workers of America in West Virginia, may be the one thing that can get the recalcitrant senator to budge.
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Solidarity going strong for striking Alabama mine workers
June 1, 2021In an immense show of support from the community, Alabama union talk radio show The Valley Labor Report hosted a fundraiser which brought in $70,000 to support striking mineworkers.
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Miners’ union president Cecil Roberts talks climate change, pensions, and more in D.C.
September 5, 2019Some politicians wish miners would just disappear.
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Ocasio-Cortez to talk Green New Deal with Kentucky coal miners
March 29, 2019Ocasio-Cortez said the struggles of people in towns which have in the past relied on coal mines as major economic drivers are "very close to [her] heart. Folks may not think of that because I'm from...
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Miners: Tax cut for coal firms threatens black lung benefits
June 8, 2018"The impacts of black lung disease are debilitating and, in the most serious cases, fatal."
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