Unions and occupational safety providers say the federal agency with statutory responsibility to protect workers’ health and ...

The West Virginia Coal Association is praising the passage of the massive budget bill passed by Congress on Thursday, however ...

Opioid abuse most common among construction and mining workers, study says 01:16. Construction workers and miners are used to physically demanding, often dangerous work.

This was later introduced and now, under the Coal Mine Workers’ Health Scheme, regular health assessments, including for lungs, are compulsory for Queensland coal mine workers.

A gold mine collapse in eastern Sudan has killed 11 miners. The state-run Sudanese Mineral Resources Limited Company in ...

Mine cleanup cash could generate work for ex-coal workers. By Jael Holzman | 07/05/2022 01:25 PM EDT . The Biden administration wants that to happen. But the bipartisan infrastructure law doesn ...

The strike at an Alabama coal mine is one of the longest in U.S. history. To make ends meet, some striking miners have picked up work at an Amazon warehouse. It’s the same warehouse where ...

Mine workers have been on the picket line outside of two mines owned by Warrior Met Coal in rural Alabama for the last seven months, waging one of the longest US strikes this century.

A demonstrator wears s "Power to the Workers" protective mask during the United Mine Workers of America Local (UMWA) rally in Brookwood, Ala., Aug. 3, 2021.

As mining heavyweights South Africa and Peru move to lift coronavirus lockdowns, workers in deep mines are resisting going back to work without adequate protective gear and information about ...

Roughly 900 miners went out on strike on April 1, 2021, and most were able to start the process of returning to the mine this week. Some unionized workers had crossed the picket line and returned ...

The coalminers have been locked out without pay for almost three weeks, in retaliation for a single one-hour strike.