Multiple Somerset County towns can never be separated from coal, the reason for their existence. But the people are the ...

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...

After President Trump signed an executive order to boost the coal industry, the labor union United Mine Workers of America is ...

With spring sports rapidly drawing to a close as the school year winds down, 14 schools and their respective track and field programs were still very much competing, Friday evening in the United Mine ...

The Associated Press is reporting thousands of employees within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department received layoff notices Tuesday. Some are with the National Institute for Occupational ...

When union organizers showed up, the companies retaliated. Membership in the United Mine Workers union peaked in 1946, then plummeted as government support waned and the industry waged an all-out war ...

President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday to reinvigorate the country’s coal mining industry.

The United Mine Workers of America and the United Steelworkers on Monday filed a motion to intervene in a federal court case brought by industry groups who claim the rule is too onerous, in which the ...

W.Va.’s coal companies are again failing to provide retirees health care coverage in violation of a collective bargaining ...

She joined the safety committees launched by the local chapter of the United Mine Workers, which collaborated with the agency to watchdog coal companies. She understood the price that had been ...

Some did not speak English as their native language. Most feared reprisals such as eviction or worse for participating in the United Mine Workers of America nationwide strike. They joined anyway.