The Labor and Working-Class History Association has started a new blog called Labor Online. I was asked to be a contributing editor. Here's my first post, on the United Mine Workers attacks on environmentalists and the Democratic Party and how workers allow companies to blind...
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My new favorite post-election reaction goes to Robert E. Murray, CEO of Murray Energy. He sent this prayer to America out to his workers, followed by his view of the.
NPR, along with Ken Ward at Coal Tattoo, provide the day's most powerful and disturbing story: the return of black lung disease to coal miners. Despite the Federal Coal Mine.
Jay Rockefeller deserves major kudos for finally calling out the coal industry for lying to workers and the state that the EPA and environmentalists are costing coal jobs: This EPA rule – two decades in the making – also moves utility companies ahead on employing...
Eric Lipton's feature on the decline of coal in Kentucky is interesting, though flawed. He tells a heartbreaking story for these coal miners, helping us understand just how deeply people.
A pro-coal group placed an ad on Craig's List, offering people $50 to wear a pro-coal t-shirt at a regulatory meeting in Illinois.
I guess every day is more or less the same in coal industry. What does such a day include? First, they kill a worker. Second, they bilk the American taxpayers, making huge profits. Specifically, they buy Wyoming coal for $1.11 per ton, sell it to...
On this date 92 years ago, the Matewan Massacre took place in the small town of Matewan, West Virginia. In January 1920, the United Mine Workers of America had a.
We don't discuss specific activist campaigns much here and I need to do a better job of it. I'm particularly interested in smaller movements that are doing amazing work to.
A couple of weeks ago, I slammed United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts for attacking the Environmental Protection Agency. I have a piece up at Alternet exploring this issue in greater detail. An excerpt: It makes little sense for Roberts to side with the coal...
On April 20, 1914, members of the Colorado National Guard, along with a strikbreaking militia employed by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, a corporation owned by John D. Rockefeller,.
UMWA President Cecil Roberts embarrassed himself and his union on a West Virginia radio station: “The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and Lisa Jackson shot us in.