“This is an opportunity to send another message to Warrior Met,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts said in a video posted for union members, urging workers to come to the weekly strike support meeting at the union…
Striking Warrior Met coal miners “are fighting against powerful forces in Alabama who want nothing more than to strip away everything we’ve earned,” United Mine Workers of America Secretary-Treasurer Brian Sanson told the national convention of the AFL-CIO union federation…
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…
The breadth of union support shown for striking Alabama coal miners against Warrior Met bosses at their April 6 rally shows the readiness of workers to throw support behind this fight. Inspired by the miners’ determination, more solidarity can be…
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.…
MCCALLA, Alabama — United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year against Warrior Met Coal were joined in a solidarity rally here April 6 by hundreds of unionists from across the South and Midwest. Over…
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…
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…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — “We have been on strike now for 252 days,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts told some 200 miners, family members, retired miners and other supporters at the union’s Dec. 8 solidarity rally at City…
