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The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. [ 1 ]
The Bituminous coal strike of 1977–1978 was a 110-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America. It began December 6, 1977, and ended on March 19, 1978. It is generally considered a successful union strike, although the contract was not beneficial to union members.
The center is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization established to protect the pensions of retirees. [2] The Center provides information, referrals, and legal assistance to individuals, provides legal training to attorneys, and advocates on policy issues related to retirement income from a workers' and consumers' perspective. [3] [4] [5]
They work for the Office of Personnel Management's Retirement Operation Center in Boyers, Pennsylvania, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh. "All the retirement paperwork is manual, on paper," Musk ...
The head of the national mine workers’ union on Friday condemned what he characterized as an effort by House Republicans to block enforcement of a long-awaited federal rule directed at curbing ...
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The Pittston Coal strike was a United States strike action led by the United Mine Workers Union (UMWA) against the Pittston Coal Company, nationally headquartered in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The strike, which lasted from April 5, 1989 to February 20, 1990, resulted from Pittston's termination of health care benefits for approximately 1,500 ...
On July 26, 1930, the second national convention of the NMU at Pittsburgh changed the group's name to Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union in an attempt to reflect the group's broader organizational aspirations. [1] The more simple NMU name remained in general use in the coal industry throughout the organization's existence, however. [1]