miners' unions
Underground workers' organizations
Miners' unions are labor organizations representing workers who extract coal, ore, or other minerals.
Mining's dangerous conditions and isolated company towns made it an early stronghold of organized labor.
The United Mine Workers of America, founded in 1890, became one of the most powerful unions in U.S. history: The miners' union called a strike over safety violations.
- labor strikesWorkers collectively stopping work
- work stoppageOrganized cessation of labor
- fair wagesReasonable compensation for labor
- pension plansEmployer-sponsored retirement savings
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
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