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Black lung is completely preventable. And it's on the rise again.

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

In 1972, labor militants ousted corrupt and entrenched leadership at the mine workers' union in an unprecedented win.

Labor militants ousted entrenched leadership at the mine workers’ union in 1972.