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Who are the United Mine Workers of America?

The United Mine Workers of America is a growing union with a diverse membership that includes coal miners, clean coal
technicians, health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees throughout the United States
and Canada. In the face of an unrelentingly hostile environment for union organizing in the United States, the UMWA is
achieving significant success in providing workers with a voice on the job and financial security at home. The international
union today continues the fight we began in 1890 for safe workplaces, good wages and benefits and fair representation in
workplaces throughout North America.

The UMWA is working families just like yours.

UMWA Organizing

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.

I Need A Union

UMWA Leadership

The UMWA is led by one of the most dynamic labor leaders in North America, Cecil E. Roberts.

Roberts became International President in October, 1995, upon the election of former UMWA International President
Richard L. Trumka to be Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO.

Elected twice by acclimation since then, Roberts has negotiated successive national agreements in the coal industry that
have resulted in unprecedented pension increases, including a 20-and-out pension for laid off miners and a 30-and-out
pension for all eligible miners. (MORE >>>)

UMWA Health & Safety on the Job

The UMWA Health and Safety (H&S) Department works to protect the safety and health of UMWA members on the job.

The Department monitors the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Mine Safety and Health Administration
to ensure each are implementing effective safety and health rules and regulations. Through an intensive program, the H&S
Dept. trains UMWA members to serve as workplace safety representatives. These reps raise health and safety issues with
employers and function as advocates for individual worker’s safety and health concerns.

In the past year, the Department has been focusing on reforming the Federal Black Lung Disability Program, pushing MSHA
to implement effective diesel exhaust rules and fighting to protect workers from overexposure to dangerous levels of noise.
To find out more about the UMWA’s Health and Safety program contact Dennis O'Dell at (703) 208-7120.

More UMWA Information:

UMWA Offices
UMWA Health & Retirement Funds

Information is power, and an
informed membership is a powerful
membership. For more than a
century, the UMW Journal has been
ensuring that UMWA members are
knowledgeable about the issues that
closely affect them and their families.
From collective bargaining to
organizing, from health and safety to
political action, from union news to
books and music, the UMW Journal
links active and retired members,
who often reside in remote locations,
to our union and to the global labor
movement.

The UMW Journal is published six
times a year, with the sixth issue
(November-December) distributed in
the form of the following year’s
calendar.

Click on the links below to view in
PDF format recent issues of this
award-winning magazine.

2007 Issues