In protest the United Mine Workers of America struck at mines run by Blankenship.

FORBES: Not King Coal

The protesters are members of United Mine Workers of America who work at Deer Creek mine near Huntington, Utah.

NPR: What's Happening At Buffett's Annual Meeting

Among them: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, the Utility Workers Union and the United Mine Workers.

WSJ: EPA Tangles With New Critic: Labor

An analysis by the United Mine Workers union concluded that this plan, along with other EPA regulations, could put as many as 250, 000 jobs at risk.

FORBES: Reining In The EPA's Reign Of Error

In a rare loss in his thirty-nine arguments before the Court, Roberts failed to persuade the Justices to uphold a sixty-four-million-dollar fine against the United Mine Workers, which was imposed by a Virginia court after a strike.

NEWYORKER: No More Mr. Nice Guy

Roosevelt, New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis, and the novelist Pearl Buck, who'd won the Nobel Prize in 1938 and whose picture he copied from the jacket of one of her bestsellers.

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