Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to ...

International President Cecil E. Roberts issued a statement in response to Friday's layoffs at the National Institute for ...

Members of the Washington-Greene County Central Labor Council gathered Monday to honor injured and deceased members in ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey has signed into law bills that have drawn concern over how they will change state mine oversight.

The Trump administration sent termination notices late on Friday to employees of a worker health and safety agency that ...

UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts released a statement on Saturday morning in response to more reported NIOSH ...

More layoffs have been reported once again at NIOSH, even as various employees were able to return to work temporarily this ...

The attorneys representing U.S. Health and Human Services said a lawsuit is premature because nobody knows yet what will happen to the black lung screening program and the employees who carry it out.

Mine worker unions lost their bid to intervene in an ongoing challenge to a federal rule that would require mines to cut the ...

“That would make anybody think about their decision to go in the mines,” said Josh Roberts, head of health and safety for the United Mine Workers of America, which recently joined a legal ...

A crowd of around 100 people gathered around the Walter Reuther statue along Heritage Port Monday afternoon to honor the eight workers who died on the job in West Virginia in 2024. The ceremony, ...

Presidents have long used coal miners as political props. Yet federal policies have done little to improve their lives, and ...