#mineworkers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mineworkers, aggregated by home.social.
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Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC - ACT 1977)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-coal-miners-doge-fmshrc -
On #MayDay Trump admin fired a mine safety commissioner & closed the #Pittsburgh office of the agency that handles mine safety disputes.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-coal-miners-doge-fmshrcFederal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) - 1977 Act.
https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2026/05/07/friday-night-massacre-at-mine-safety-review-commission/ -
(Interview) Director of Harlan County 1976-2026
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/kopple-harlan-county-american-dreamShowing in NYC
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/harlan-county-usa-american-dream/#BarbaraKopple #BlackLung #documentary #films #HarlanCounty #HazelDickens #labourmovement #mineworkers #solidarity #unions
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19 November 2010 in the #PikeRiver Mine, 46 km northeast of #Greymouth, in the West Coast region of #Aotearoa /New Zealand's South Island following a methane explosion at approximately 3:44 pm resulted in the deaths of 29 miners.
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1990s #ICEM campaign poster in support of health and safety for the world's #mineworkers
"The stronger the union, the safer the mine."
International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) poster by Fiona Macintosh.
(Source: https://admin.industriall-union.org/archive/icem/archive-icem-icem-poster-wins-design-contest/ )
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April 8, 1911
“Convict Leasing” Slavery By Another Name (13th Amendement) #Birmingham, #Alabama.
128 #coal mine workers: 113 of the dead were Black men convicted by Alabama courts of petty crimes & turned over to the mining company, which paid prison officials for the right to force the convicts to work WITHOUT PAY until they had served their sentences.
https://www.pbs.org/video/slavery-another-name-slavery-video/https://portside.org/2026-04-06/week-peoples-history-april-8-14-2026
#BannerMine #Capitalism #Exploitation #MineWorkers #Racism #Slavery #WorkingClassHistory
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📣 New Podcast! "UK Coal Miners Bring down Conservative Government" on @Spreaker #1970s_uk #1974_british #1974_edward #britain_national #coal #crisis #day #election #energy #heath #labor #miners #mineworkers #movement #of #strike #strike_three #uk #union #week
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/uk-coal-miners-bring-down-conservative-government--70369198 -
Grace Golden Clayton suggested to her minister that he honour all fathers at a Sunday service, which he did on 5 July 1908.
Sonora Smart Dodd attempted to establish an official equivalent to Mother's Day for fathers, which was implemented statewide in 1910. It grew from there was established as a federal holiday in 1972.Sources
http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/fathers-dayhttps://libcom.org/history/monongah-mining-disaster-1907-steven-johns
#FathersDay #migrantworkers #mineworkers #Monongah #WestVirginia
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#Mineworkers Are Not Backing Down This #Election Season
https://barnraisingmedia.com/mineworkers-are-not-backing-down-this-election-season
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@workingclasshistory @pasttense
We are doing the work today for the master, because we are organized on
the basis of being slaves.
-Andrej Klemenčič, 1905https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/the-iww-writings-of-andrej-klemencic/
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Massacre https://sahistory.org.za/article/marikana-massacre-16-august-2012
On 10 August 2012, workers at the British-owned #Lonmin mine walked out on a #wildcatstrike demanding better pay.
The strike would become best known for a massacre of workers on August 16, but it continued until late September when workers were successful in achieving pay increases of between 11 and 22%.https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11364/marikana-miners-strike
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700 mine workers at Tabas mine resigned in protest against unsafe working conditions and heavy fines.
On September 31, in a big disaster, at least 53 mine workers died due to methane gas explosion in Tabas mine.This disaster broke the record in terms of the number of people killed and was named the deadliest mining accident. Only in the six months leading to Mehr of this year, 20 mining accidents have occurred in Iran with at least 60 deaths.
During the explosion of the Tabas mine, the wagons that were supposed to extract the coal, this time, took out the lifeless bodies of the workers from the dark corridors of the mine.
Although the Tabas mine was sealed after the explosion, it has been a few days since this mine was reopened without any changes.
Now, 700 workers out of a total of 2,000 workers of this mine have resigned en masse in protest of the lack of work safety.