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

on June 15. Courtesy of UMWA communications That was one of the picket line chants heard June 15 as several hundred members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and their allies attempted ...

The longtime leader of the United Mine Workers of America, Cecil Roberts, is retiring. Roberts, a West Virginia native who ...

The United Mine Workers of America had successfully organized other mining operations in the U.S., but West Virginia remained tightly controlled by the coal company operators.