ATLANTA — International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1410 sent out a press release announcing plans to take strike action Oct. 20 against CSA Equipment Company, which operates at the Port of Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf of Mexico. “There is overwhelming…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. – “We’re not going to give in to Warrior Met,” striking United Mine Workers of America member Greg Pilkerton told the Militant as people were gathering for the union’s solidarity rally here Aug. 17. He is one of…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — In a calculated attack on workers’ right to strike, the National Labor Relations Board Region 10 on Aug. 2 ordered the United Mine Workers of America to pay $13.3 million to Brookwood-based Warrior Met Coal, where hundreds…
ATLANTA — “We’re keeping up our weekly solidarity rallies,” striking Warrior Met coal miner Otis Sims told the Militant in a phone interview May 29. “They’re important. Now we have them outside UMWA Local 2397’s union hall in Brookwood every…
ATLANTA — Opportunities to build solidarity for the 1,100 members of United Mine Workers of America on strike for over a year at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, are growing. The April 6 solidarity rally near the mine that…
McCALLA, Ala. — Over 1,500 United Mine Workers of America members, retirees, family members, other unionists, and community supporters rallied in Tannehill State Park here April 6 to back UMWA members on strike at Warrior Met Coal in nearby Brookwood.…
ATLANTA — “We’re getting support from unions all over the country for the April 6 rally” to back United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year in Brookwood, Alabama, UMWA Director of Communications Erin Bates…
PAVO, Ga. — “The war in Ukraine and rising prices are the No. 1 topics of discussion among farmers in this area, Black and white,” said Willie Head, a longtime farmer in South Georgia. He was speaking with Sam Manuel,…
BESSEMER, Ala. — “It’s an atrocity that we, the laborers, generate 99% of the income, yet we get less than 1% of the cut,” Amazon worker Dale Wyatt told 150 unionists and others here Feb. 26. They had turned out…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — “We’ve worked out with the court that the union can start picketing again,” United Mine Workers of America District 20 Representative James Blankenship told the crowd of striking Warrior Met Coal miners at their weekly solidarity rally…
