Page 20 - Mine Workers News Today

Federal labor officials fined the United Mine Workers of America union $13.3 million for, among other things, property damage at the picket lines.

The Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has sensitised Mineral Title Holders mining in Nasarawa State to the importance of reaching a Community Development Agreements (CDA) with host communities.

A decade after 34 striking miners were gunned down by police in Marikana, South Africa, most of the victims and their families complain that nobody has been prosecuted, nor have they been compensated.

The Marikana massacre took place in August 2012 at the Lonmin platinum mine, where mine workers were demanding a minimum salary of R12,500 a month.

CHARLESTON — Congress is preparing to vote on a sweeping spending package designed to accelerate the nation’s transition to and create thousands of jobs in clean energy.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal oversight board ordered the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company where members have been on strike for more than a year, a ruling the union said Wednesday it would challenge.

CHARLESTON — Congress is preparing to vote on a sweeping spending package designed to accelerate the nation’s transition to and create thousands of jobs in clean energy.

A labor board said the union was responsible for increased security, damage repair and lost revenue at Warrior Met Coal Mining during a strike.

A federal oversight board has ordered the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company whose members have been on strike...

Some 1,100 members went on strike against the company on April 1, 2021.