What does UMW stand for?

United Mine Workers

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Union spokesman Phil Smith said Chaney was a member of the United Mine Workers.

Feds blame low oxygen for Ala. mine death

Eugene Trisko, attorney for the United Mine Workers of America, expressed among mineworkers concerns the stringency of near-term targets and potential adverse impact on domestic coal production and employment.

United States : Diverse Groups Seek to Reconcile Timeline and ...

Trumka, 60, a charismatic, former head of the United Mine Workers, embraced the challenge of rebuilding union ranks that have fallen from a high of 35 percent in the 1950s to just 12.

Trumka promises to revive unions

He was director of the Mining Project at the Center for Law and Social Policy and solicitor of safety for the United Mine Workers of America, among his many public health advocacy positions.

McAteer to receive Rall award for health advocacy

The United Mine Workers of America endorsed Obama for president yesterday despite his recent defeats in primaries in the coal-producing states of Kentucky and Virginia.

ON THE BRINK; Latest win puts Obama in sight of Democratic nomination

; * $87,000 for a Fuel Cell Coal Mine Vehicle demonstration Project at the United Mine Workers of America, Fairfax, Va.

Earmarks once again inflate govt. spending

He discusses the decline in the black workforce over the period and why it happened with a strong United Mine Workers of America presence in the coalfields.

"Everybody was black down there"; race and industrial change in the ...

Beginning with churches near the coalfields, more than 750 local and national religious leaders have put forth "A Call for Justice at Peabody Energy" that backs miners seeking to organize with the United Mine Workers of America.

'Mr. Peabody's coal train ...'