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By Susan Lamont April 19, 2021 Militant/Susan LaMontUnited Mine Workers of America Local 2397 members on picket line at Warrior Met mine No. 7, April 2. At left is Tyler Bittle; right, Antwon McGee. Over 1,100 went on strike day before. Members of United Mine Workers Local 2397 voted April 9 on whether to accept a tentative agreement with the owners of Warrior Met Coal reached on April 5. The miners rejected the contract. The strike co...

National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy in an interview with the ReSource. For decades now, rhetoric around action on climate change has been about things like saving the planet, or saving polar bears. Just think: How many times have you seen an image of ice crashing into the sea from a melting glacier, or a sad-eyed seal atop a floe, as part of a climate change message? But Gina McCarthy — the veteran environmental policy maker President Joe Biden has picked as his top climate advisor — is...

In todays Daily, I have the latest on an investigation launched in Indianapolis following the death of Crimson Tide basketball superfan Luke Ratliff on Friday, an update on an ongoing strike in Brookwood and all of the other stories Im reading and working on today. First, todays weather: Subscribe A beautiful sunny day in Tuscaloosa, with a high near 73 degrees and a low around 45. Tuscaloosa Daily is made possible in part by Patch sponsors JamisonMoneyFarmer and PRIDE of Tuscaloosa. To becom...

Mineworkers who contracted silicosis, TB can appeal rejection of claims So far, the trust has only paid out seven claims in a trial run, however, it plans to roll out more payments in coming months following years of delays since a settlement was reached between miners and gold producers. FILE: The trust said it had conducted 408 medical examinations on prospective beneficiaries so far, with over 2,000 claim...

African Trade Unions hail Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, insist trade rules respect workers’ rights February 17, 2021 African trade unionists have tasked the new Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to ensure that global trade agreements promote workers’ rights, eradicate poverty and guarantee sustainable industrial development in the world. In a congratulatory statement signed by the Vice President, Industriall Global Union Africa, Comrade Issa Aremu and Comrade...

Premium Content Subscriber only The mining union has slammed the industrial relations bill currently before parliament aimed at stamping out the “permanent casual” labour hire situation rampant across the mining industry. Two key elements of the package were the focus of the union’s complaints, general president Tony Maher said. The elements are; a fair, objective definition of casual work that looks at the reality of working conditions and not just the contract at point of hire; and “s...

Feeney for the people By Bill Knight Anne Feeney’s fiery, flowing red hair somehow contrasted with her silky singing as she played a rousing set of protest songs, folk and bluegrass and other numbers from the back of a truck. And from the heart. She was full of fun and fury. That was in 1995 at a Decatur demonstration following a march of hundreds of Auto Workers, Rubber Workers, Paperworkers and supporters protesting Caterpillar, Bridgestone/Firestone and A.E. Staley. Now, her strong voice i...

Three people including the owner of the quarry had been detained.

Most people are familiar with the politically motivated killings that punctuated the 1960s. From Medgar Evers to Robert Kennedy, bloodshed galvanized the antiwar, civil rights, and student movements, but eroded trust in government and higher education. The labor movement was no exception to the rule. On New Year’s Eve 1969 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania, three gunmen shot Mine Workers (UMWA) leader Joseph “Jock” Yablonksi, his wife Margaret, and their daughter Charlotte as they slept. The k...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Baralaba coal mine worker who got into a fight with a colleague at their Christmas party fronted Biloela Magistrates Court last week. Michael Poul Reid Grenyer pleaded guilty last Wednesday to one count of public nuisance in the vicinity of a licensed premises. Police Prosecutor Senior Constable Pete Rumford read the facts of Grenyers case to the court and Magistrate Philippa Beckinsale. On the afternoon of December 3 last year, Grenyer attended the Baralab...