The United Mine Workers of America has entered into a memorandum of understanding with battery maker SPARKZ which is expected to build a plant in West Virginia. UMWA representative and state ...

The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President addressed more than 100 UMWA local union officers Wednesday ... at Patriot operations in West Virginia and Kentucky and more ...

In 1902, the UMWA finally achieved some recognition in the Kanawha-New River Coalfield, its first success in West Virginia. Following the union successes, coal operators had formed the Kanawha County ...

Massey Energy—which owns the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia ... role of the United Mine Workers union (UMWA). The UMWA established roots in southern West Virginia during ...

The West Virginia AFL-CIO hosted its 37th annual ... international president of the United Mine Workers of America. Roberts also stressed the importance of not only remembering those who have ...

"[W]e are disappointed that the bill will not pass," Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America ... Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, said on Sunday that he couldn't support ...

Labor militants ousted entrenched leadership at the mine workers’ union in ... miners of the United Mine Workers of America demonstrate in the streets of Charleston, West Virginia, during ...

Child coal miners with mules in Gary, West Virginia ... UMWA organizing effort in the area, local mining companies forced miners to sign yellow-dog contracts that bound them never to join a union.

Joe Manchin of West Virginia, West Virginia University President Dr. E. Gordon Gee, Marshall University President Brad Smith, and UMWA International Secretary-Treasurer Brian Sanson. Vantage ...

issued the following statement regarding her meeting today with West Virginia United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) retirees: "It was great to see my friends from West Virginia and have a ...