UMWA President Cecil Roberts embarrassed himself and his union on a West Virginia radio station: 鈥淭he Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and Lisa Jackson shot us in.
Building on my post from the other day about what the decline of coal is going to do to the already horrible economy of southern Appalachia, Brad Plumer weighs in.
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.
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.
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.
