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Striking coal miners pick up their strike checks from the United Mine Workers of America at a union hall on March 23, 2022, in Brookwood, Alabama.
The strike at the Warrior Met Coal mine was one of the longest in U.S. history, but the price of coal soared during the walkout, giving the company leverage. Skip to content Skip to site index.
But, yes, after 23 months, the coal miners of Brookwood, Alabama, are heading back to work. ... These miners went on strike back on April 1st, 2021.
Hundreds of coal miners in Brookwood, Ala., reached a milestone Thursday: They've spent 20 months on strike. That's well past the six-week average for strikes, according to Bloomberg Law .
U.S. coal producer Peabody Energy is extending a lockout at one of its New South Wales mines, Australia's Mining and Energy ...
Coal miners have been on strike for 18 months in Alabama. Their struggle points to the wider search for a “just transition” for an industry squeezed by energy trends and the fight against ...
When miners protested Trump’s move to shutter safety offices and a health program for black lung disease, his administration ...
For 165 days, 158,000 men working in 828 mines, of 135 companies, abstained from work and consequently from wages amounting in the aggregate to about $1,000,000 a day, while the coal companies ...
"That strike was crushed but there's a number of those moments ... for all of Canada," said Burchell, who worked in the coal mine at Lingan, N.S., for six years before serving in senior union roles ...
Chairman John H. Uhl, John Johnson, President of the International Correspondence School and the nestors of Luzerne, Lackawanna and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania, spent a busy week talking, ...