Willow Lake Mine Workers Vote for UMWA
The 444 workers at the Willow Lake Mine in Equality, Ill., voted last week to be represented by the Mine Workers (UMWA).
The 444 workers at the Willow Lake Mine in Equality, Ill., voted last week to be represented by the Mine Workers (UMWA).
Massey Energy Co.’s Upper Big Branch (W.Va.) coal mine exploded April 5, 2010 because the company operated the mine in a “profoundly reckless manner and 29 coal miners paid with their lives for the corporate risk-taking,” according to an independent report on the disaster commissioned by former W.Va. Gov. Joe Manchin (D).
The day after federal mine safety officials announced a series of “outrageous” safety violations at a Massey Energy West Virginia coal mine, mining industry officials were on Capitol Hill calling for fewer federal inspections and a voluntary safety program.
Some 5,000 Mine Workers (UMWA) members, their families and other union and community supporters from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia braved cold winds and snow in a Waynesburg, Pa., march and rally to show We Are One with workers around the nation under assault. (Check out the video.)
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