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2. United Mine Workers of America - Wikipedia

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   The United Mine Workers of America ( UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. [ 1] Although its main focus has always been on workers and their rights, the ...

3. Coal mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Coal mining is an industry in transition in the United States. Production in 2019 was down 40% from the peak production of 1,171.8 million short tons (1,063 million metric tons) in 2008. Employment of 43,000 coal miners is down from a peak of 883,000 in 1923. [ 1] Generation of electricity is the largest user of coal, being used to produce 50% ...

4. West Virginia coal wars - Wikipedia

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   The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine wars era began with the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek strike of 1912–1913. [ 1] With help from Mary "Mother Jones" Harris Jones, an important figure in unionizing the mine workers, the miners ...

5. EDITORIAL: The real cost of coal for West Virginia - AOL

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   According to a WVU study, in 2019, coal mining and coal-fired power plants directly employed 15, 400 people (roughly 13, 000 in mining and 2, 000 in plants) and indirectly supported the employment ...

6. Virgin Hyperloop will build its next facility in coal country

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   The Hyperloop Certification Center will be built in Charleston, West Virginia. A former coal mine in Tucker and Grant County, West Virginia, is the location for Virgin Hyperloop’s new Hyperloop ...

7. Sago Mine disaster - Wikipedia

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   13 coal miners trapped in West Virginia mine. 12 coal miners are found dead, 1 in critical condition, in West Virginia mine. The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, United States, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped 13 miners for nearly ...