By Garrett Neese [email protected] Cuts to mining safety oversight and research, most recently Tuesday’s cuts at ...

The Department of Government Efficiency, created by President Donald Trump and run by Elon Musk, has been targeting federal ...

She joined the safety committees launched by the local chapter of the United Mine Workers, which collaborated with the agency to watchdog coal companies. She understood the price that had been ...

Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.

When union organizers showed up, the companies retaliated. Membership in the United Mine Workers union peaked in 1946, then plummeted as government support waned and the industry waged an all-out ...

The Associated Press is reporting thousands of employees within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department received layoff ...

The United Mine Workers of America, a union representing coal miners, said the hundreds of NIOSH workers who were dismissed “literally save the lives of coal miners every day.” “The ...

The NIOSH layoffs — along with other recent Trump administration actions — prompted the United Mine Workers of America Union, whose workers face issues like black lung disease, to question ...