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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 ]
Articles, local unions, state affiliates, biographies and other items associated with the American and Canadian labor union, the United Mine Workers. Wikimedia Commons has media related to United Mine Workers of America .
The Coal strike of 1902 (also known as the anthracite coal strike) [1] [2] was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities.
The 1922 UMW Miner strike or The Big Coal Strike [1] was a nationwide general strike of miners in the US and Canada [a] after the United Mine Worker's (UMW) trade union contract expired on March 31, 1922. The strike decision was ordered March 22, to start effective April 1. Around 610,000 mine workers struck.
The United Mine Workers of America, and the Non-Union Coal Fields (1923) online edition Archived 2011-01-15 at the Wayback Machine; Lantz; Herman R. People of Coal Town Columbia University Press, 1958; on southern Illinois; online Archived 2011-01-03 at the Wayback Machine; Laslett, John H.M. ed. The United Mine Workers: A Model of Industrial ...
He became active in Miners for Democracy, the reform movement in the United Mine Workers which sprung up around miner Arnold Miller. In 1977, he was elected vice president of District 17. In 1982, Roberts was elected vice president of UMWA. His running mate was Richard Trumka, who became the union's president.
United Mine Workers of America Members Ratify New Five-Year Agreement with The Bituminous Coal Operators Association. PR Newswire Association LLC, 2001. United mine workers of America. The New proposed contract between United Mine Workers of America and the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. Place of publication not identified], 1978.
Gestreicher, Richard. "Book Reviews: The Miners' Fight for Democracy: Arnold Miller and the Reform of the United Mine Workers, By Paul F. Clark." Pennsylvania History. 49 (July 1982). Navarro, Peter. "Union Bargaining Power in the Coal Industry, 1945-1981." Industrial and Labor Relations Review. January 1983. "Still in a Hole with Coal." Time.