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Judge James Robert, Jr. has renewed a strikebreaking injunction barring all picketing within 300 feet of company property.

Alabama miners brace for long battle against Warrior Met Coal Striking coal miners and their families in Brookwood, Alabama, are bracing for a drawn-out battle against Warrior Met Coal, where nearly 1,100 coal miners have been on strike for five weeks. The first job action called by the United Mine Workers (UMWA) in more than a quarter of a century began on April 1. The company has adamantly refused miners' demands to restore pay cuts from 2016, although Warrior has enjoyed record output and profits for years. Striking Warrior Met Coal miners (Source: UMWA) Warrior Met is a major producer of ...

Warrior Met Coal miners defiant, three weeks into Alabama strike Miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, are continuing their three-week strike in the face of stepped-up repression by the company and sheriff’s deputies from both Bibb and Tuscaloosa counties who are escorting strikebreakers through the workers’ picket lines. Company-friendly judges have also issued injunctions to limit the number of picketers. Coal miners told the World Socialist Web Site that Warrior Met is also using drones and hiding private security guards in the woods to spy on striking workers. Despite th...

Hypocrisy from UMWA President Cecil Roberts after rebuke by Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama On Monday, Cecil Roberts, the long-time president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) union, released a video statement on the two-week-long strike by 1,100 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in central Alabama. Although the video lasts only three minutes and 19 seconds, and was shot from the comfort of his Washington, D.C., office, Roberts appears nervous and unsteady as he hypocritically declares his support for the miners and piles one lie on another. This is no doubt the result of the fact...