Topic: United Mine Workers Of America

Air Shaft OK Saves 700 Coal Miners' Jobs

Federal and state environmental officials have approved construction of an air shaft at a southwestern Pennsylvania coal mine, safeguarding the...
LAWRENCE MESSINA â?" Key players in the coal industry voiced contrasting opinions Thursday about a federal proposal that would eventually require ...
â?" The University of Arizona has won a $122,000 federal grant to design simulation software for training miners. The grant from the U.S...

Patriot Coal Inks Deals With Union

By St. Louis Business Journal Patriot Coal said late Tuesday that its subsidiaries have signed new agreements with the United Mine Workers of...
Posted on 09/27/11 at 6:58pm by Greg Chalmers . Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX ) today announced that its signatory subsidiaries have signed...
Posted on 09/01/11 at 4:24pm by Eddie Staley . Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF ) announced today that the Company has concluded its local...
That is the underlying problem with the course our government has chosen to steer over the past thirty years. The real tragedy wrought upon the United States by the politics formulated by Nixon and perfected by Reagan is the indiscrete ignorance of ...

Massey Energy director defends CEO, assails unions

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Massey Energy Co , owner of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 miners were killed three weeks ago, accused unions on Monday of spreading a "big lie" that the company had traded safety for profit.Bobby Inman, a member ...
<div><p>Dozens of rescuers were trying to find 19 missing miners after an explosion killed seven workers Monday at an underground coal mine with a history of releasing vast amounts of highly combustible methane gas, the mine owner and mine safety ...
US mine deaths hit record low of 34 in 2009; Kentucky leads nation with 7 deathsThe number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell for a second straight year to 34, the fewest since officials began keeping records ...