Coal Miners in Alabama, organized with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), recently hit 500 days on strike against Warrior Met Coal, which was previously known as Walter Energy before it ...
Then the miners strike began, a dispute which devastated communities across the UK. Sian James Sian James, who was portrayed in the 2014 film Pride, was one of many women who joined miners' strike ...
COALTON, Ohio, Dec. 1.--All the miners in this, the Seventh District, 2,500 to 3,000, came out this morning on a refusal by the operators to grant an increase of 5 cents per ton for mining.
In consequence of the proposed reduction of wages, the miners employed at the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company's Works, held a meeting at Cooperation Hall, Hyde Park, yesterday afternoon.
The year-long miners' strike from March 1984 to 1985 changed the face of Welsh industry and many of its closest-knit working communities. Wales' largest employment sector was in a desperate battle ...
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has claimed that a fear of being scapegoated by Arthur Scargill if miners lost their heroic 1984-85 strike was behind his startling inaction during the walkout. Mr ...
Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner Last week Seumas Milne, ...
At least 12 workerssigned a petition announcing the hunger strike that is expected to last until they receive 46 million ...
It is October 1984, at the height of tense negotiations during the miners’ strike which threaten to destabilise the ...
The miners' strike left a lasting impact on communities across Scotland - including women whose loved ones downed tools from 1984-85. Across the country, mothers, wives, daughters and sisters all ...
It has been four decades since the beginning of the 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike, which only lasted one year but made a significant impact for decades to come. The strikes were held by the National Union ...
Miners strike 1984: the beginning of a struggle that decided the future of many North East communities. The miners strike saw Margaret Thatcher and the Tory government lock horns with NUM ...