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This Day in Labor History: September 17, 1989

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 17, 2011

On September 17, 1989, 98 miners and one minister conducted a peaceful takeover of the Pittston Moss 3 Coal Preparation Plant. The Pittston strike was one of the most brutal and hard-fought of the last three decades. The sit-in was part of a 10 month strike that pitted the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) […]

coal , West Virginia

What the Coal Industry Really Thinks about West Virginia

By Erik Loomis

On July 12, 2011

The coal industry is so incredibly loathsome: In response to a recent study connecting mountaintop removal coal mining to birth defects, coal industry lawyers noted: The study failed to account for co

Blog Promotion , coal , General , West Virginia

Blog Promotion: Coal Tattoo

By Erik Loomis

On June 20, 2011

As I expressed last week when thinking about the Huffington Post boycott and its broader implications for the blogosphere, I noted that we are long past the time when the blogosphere was the relative

The Second Battle of Blair Mountain

By Erik Loomis

In coal , environment , General , Historical Memory , labor , West Virginia

On June 17, 2011

Miners experienced awful conditions in the coal regions of West Virginia in the early 20th century. Coal companies ruled the region like a fiefdom. Impoverished workers had few connections with the outside world and could be thrown out of their homes or off their land at the whim of the company. Miners died from from […]

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