United We Bargain:
Get Involved & Know Your Rights
Get Involved & Know Your Rights
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Learn the truth about how and why companies hire union busters and engage in
union busting tactics in an effort to destroy union organizing campaigns. Learn more
about the billion-dollar union busting industry commonly called "union avoidance" or
"union free."
Click here to watch the videos.
union busting tactics in an effort to destroy union organizing campaigns. Learn more
about the billion-dollar union busting industry commonly called "union avoidance" or
"union free."
Click here to watch the videos.
How Union Busters Violate Your Right To Organize ________
The UMWA welcomes workers in the coal and other
mining industries, manufacturing, health care, public
service, professional services and other trades. UMWA
contracts provide top wages, unmatched health care
and pension benefits, strong health and safety
protections and an ability of workers to have a voice
on the job.
mining industries, manufacturing, health care, public
service, professional services and other trades. UMWA
contracts provide top wages, unmatched health care
and pension benefits, strong health and safety
protections and an ability of workers to have a voice
on the job.
If you are a worker who's place of employment is currently involved in a UMWA
Organizing Campaign, look at the list below to find your workplace and then click on
the link to find out more information about news, updates and campaign actions..
Organizing Campaign, look at the list below to find your workplace and then click on
the link to find out more information about news, updates and campaign actions..
- Consol Amvest/Fola: "Fighting for Fairness at Fola"
- OCI Chemical's Wyoming Trona Mine
| Current UMWA Organizing Campaigns |
| Special Video Feature: |
Join the fight to
pass the
Employee Free
Choice Act
The UMWA is
joining with other
unions of the
AFL-CIO in the
Million Member
Mobilization
campaign to
demand the
passage of the
Employee Free
Choice Act. Click
here to join this fight
and make your
voice heard.
pass the
Employee Free
Choice Act
The UMWA is
joining with other
unions of the
AFL-CIO in the
Million Member
Mobilization
campaign to
demand the
passage of the
Employee Free
Choice Act. Click
here to join this fight
and make your
voice heard.
FROM THE
FRONTLINES
Check out special online copies of
the UMW Journal's "From the
Frontlines" section. In each of
edition of the Journal, From the
Frontlines spotlights organizing
campaigns by the UMWA.
FRONTLINES
Check out special online copies of
the UMW Journal's "From the
Frontlines" section. In each of
edition of the Journal, From the
Frontlines spotlights organizing
campaigns by the UMWA.
"Its Time to
Restore
Workers'
Freedom to
Form
Unions"
Restore
Workers'
Freedom to
Form
Unions"
| About UMWA Organizing |
| I Want A Union |
If you are a worker who wants a UMWA Organizer to contact you or if you have a question
about the UMWA that you would like answered, simply click on the link below and fill out the
contact form on the UMWA United We Bargain Contact Us page and someone from the Union
will be in touch with you.
I Want A Union!!!
about the UMWA that you would like answered, simply click on the link below and fill out the
contact form on the UMWA United We Bargain Contact Us page and someone from the Union
will be in touch with you.
I Want A Union!!!
Click here to
watch a special
video:
We are the
UMWA -- who
we are and
what we do
watch a special
video:
We are the
UMWA -- who
we are and
what we do
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| Commentary: McCain no friend of coal |
McCain no friend of coal
Published in Charleston Daily Mail, Sept. 23, 2008
By Cecil E. Roberts, International President, United Mine Workers of America
John McCain sure surprised a lot of people when he came out the other day against
mountaintop removal mining. You could almost hear the backpedaling and side-stepping going
on in coal operators’ boardrooms and Republican party headquarters all the way up Cabin
Creek. They thought they had a friend of coal in John McCain, only to find out that maybe he
wasn’t so friendly after all. (MORE >>>)
Published in Charleston Daily Mail, Sept. 23, 2008
By Cecil E. Roberts, International President, United Mine Workers of America
John McCain sure surprised a lot of people when he came out the other day against
mountaintop removal mining. You could almost hear the backpedaling and side-stepping going
on in coal operators’ boardrooms and Republican party headquarters all the way up Cabin
Creek. They thought they had a friend of coal in John McCain, only to find out that maybe he
wasn’t so friendly after all. (MORE >>>)