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The new overtime regulation is a welcome and long overdue update,and it has broad implications for the more than 100 million workerswho do not currently receive overtime protections. Nearly 1.3million low-income, white-collar workers would become eligibleunder the new regulation. Additionally, few workers who earnbetween $23,660 and $100,000 per year would be adversely affectedby the new regulation.

Union leaders say the miners could return to work at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood while efforts resume to forge a new labor agreement.

An act of kindness and love for telephone poles sparks a friendship between a crew of line workers and a teen with autism.

The department of health will from Monday start with the screening, verification, medical examination and payment of benefits to eligible former mineworkers who contracted tuberculosis (TB) or silicosis in March 1965 and December 2019.

A look at our historical roads, and where their names come from.

Originally published at In These Times. In December 1972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the Mine Workers (UMWA), a union which at the time boasted 200,000 members and a culture of workplace militancy without peer. In national balloting supervised by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich

Originally published at In These Times. In December 1972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the Mine Workers (UMWA), a union which at the time boasted 200,000 members and a culture of workplace militancy without peer. In national balloting supervised by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich

As part of the implementation of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in May 2021, IndustriALL continues to develop sound industrial relations across the global operations of mining giant AngloAmerican.

The 60th anniversary of the Robena Mine disaster will be commemorated on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at the Robena Monument on Route 21.

MANNINGTON — The Farmington No. 9 Mine Disaster will be remembered for its 54th anniversary at its memorial site located on Flat Run Road on Sunday.