Multiple Somerset County towns can never be separated from coal, the reason for their existence. But the people are the ...

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...

I'm 49 years old and have nothing saved for retirement — what should I do? Don't panic. Here are 5 of the easiest ways you ...

The Associated Press is reporting thousands of employees within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department received layoff notices Tuesday. Some are with the National Institute for Occupational ...

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

The United Mine Workers of America and the United Steelworkers on Monday filed a motion to intervene in a federal court case brought by industry groups who claim the rule is too onerous, in which the ...

President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday to reinvigorate the country’s coal mining industry.

W.Va.’s coal companies are again failing to provide retirees health care coverage in violation of a collective bargaining ...

In These Times writes that the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and the AFL-CIO’s United Steelworkers have filed litigation against the Mine Safety and Health Administration which ...

When union organizers showed up, the companies retaliated. Membership in the United Mine Workers union peaked in 1946, then plummeted as government support waned and the industry waged an all-out ...