Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize. ... the strife of the mid-1970s Brookside mining strike here was captured in the Academy Award-winning documentary Harlan County U.S.A.

HARLAN, Ky. — Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize. ... More recently, the strife of the mid-1970s Brookside mining strike here was captured in the Academy Award-winning documentary, ...

Smith said those western Kentucky mine shutdowns led to the loss of about 20,000 union members in two years. Patriot Coal cited the slumping market when it told workers the Highland Mine had to close.

HARLAN, Ky. — Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize. ... More recently, the strife of the mid-1970s Brookside mining strike here was captured in the Academy Award-winning documentary, ...

The union era’s death knell sounded in Kentucky on New Year’s Eve, when Patriot Coal announced the closing of its Highland Mine. The underground mine in western Kentucky employed about 400 ...

A protest by a group of coal miners in Harlan County, Ky., ... protesters at the blockade camp. ... in the early 1970s during a bitter 13-month strike by workers at the Brookside mine, ...

Kentucky Coal Miner Weighs In On Railroad Blockade As Protests Continue Play 06:25 ... Then in the 1970s, a 13-month strike at the Brookside mine again also resulted in violence.

Coal mined from a Harlan County strip mine falls from a conveyor belt in Totz, Kentucky. Veterans of bloody worker strikes of yesteryear say the improvements they won have made unions obsolete ...