Topic: Cecil Roberts
0 . The United Mine Workers labor union says its members have ratified a new 5 1/2-year deal with coal companies in a nationwide vote.. . The union ...
LAWRENCE MESSINA รข?" The growing demand for new, younger coal miners can mesh with the constant push to improve safety underground, top officials ...
0 . Thousands of union coal miners and supporters from several states tried to fuel an uprising in southwestern Pennsylvania on Friday, proclaiming ...
Mine safety agency to seek federal injunctions against mines with poor safety recordsThe government will start going directly to federal court to shut down mines that make a habit of ignoring safety, the nation's top mine safety official told lawmakers Tuesday ...
The National Mining Association said Tuesday there is no need for new regulations to bolster mine safety because the government already has the enforcement tools it needs.NMA spokesman Bruce Watzman told lawmakers in prepared testimony that the Mine Safety and Health ...
Lawmakers warn huge backlog in mine safety cases could undermine crackdown on repeat violators Stepped-up enforcement of mine safety laws has caused such a backlog of new cases that delays could undermine a crackdown on repeat violators, lawmakers warned Tuesday."This staggering ...
Sam Church, former leader of the United Mine Workers of America, died early Tuesday after a long illness, the union announced.Church, 72, lived in Pennington Gap in southwestern Virginia. He died at Bristol Memorial Hospital in southern Virginia, union spokesman Mike ...
Obama nominates former UMW, Penn. officials to head federal mining regulatory agenciesThe Obama administration nominated officials Monday to head two key agencies that oversee the health and safety of the nation's 392,000 miners and environmental issues at thousands of surface ...
Site of 1914 Ludlow Massacre where 19 died in Colo. to be dedicated National Historic LandmarkA southern Colorado site where 19 striking coal miners and family members were killed in 1914 is being dedicated as a National Historic Landmark.Colorado Gov. Bill ...
Judge requires federal agency that regulates mining to strengthen rules for rescue teamsA judge on Tuesday ordered the federal agency that regulates coal mining to strengthen rules designed to make the nation's 38,000 underground coal miners safer by creating better-trained ...
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