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Coal miners’ woes threaten electricity production across region
20 Feb 2026 20:46 GMT
… 31, 2025.
CE Oltenia employees have held protests at several … plant, while 13 workers have gone on hunger strike over the possible … reduced the salaries of all employees, according to reports.
In … local media.
Last September, miners at the Zenica coal mine …
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5 times labor unions made history in Michigan
19 Feb 2026 20:59 GMT
… their enduring benefits for workers.
Labor historians might argue … group of striking miners had gathered with their … down strike differs from a traditional strike in that employees … job experience).
This “Stand-Up” success reminded Michiganders that labor …
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How Jesse Jackson made room for white workers
19 Feb 2026 16:51 GMT
… Americans, people of color, workers, women, immigrants, the LGBTQ … active and disabled miners, families and widows. The strike “would be … continued loss of manufacturing jobs, the death throes of … federal government to address job losses and poverty, rampant …
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Carbon Monoxide Leak Leaves 37 Miners Dead in Nigeria
19 Feb 2026 05:42 GMT
… MENAFN) At least 37 miners have lost their lives … the deadliest mining catastrophes to strike the West African nation … in underground tunnels, incapacitating workers in the final hours of … findings indicated roughly 33 workers were inside the tunnel …
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Harry Barnes, Left-wing Labour MP who refused to toe the Party line
18 Feb 2026 12:39 GMT
… , as Independent Labour Publications, re-affiliated with Labour. He became … strike of 1984-85, he helped set up the Dronfield Miners … Neil Kinnock’s abandoning Labour’s commitment to unilateral … has since oscillated between Labour and the Conservatives.
Harry …
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From the mines to the North Sea: Workers fear history is repeating itself
18 Feb 2026 06:41 GMT
The miners’ strike of the mid-eighties was … energy profits levy and by Labour and the SNP’s stance … ’s 1,000 families, workers losing their jobs, communities devastated – and no … left up to employers to provide accommodation for their workers.
Transport is …
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An End To The Resident Doctors' Dispute Could Cause New Problems For Government
21 Feb 2026 10:26 GMT
… , in the weeks after Labour’s election victory in July … there. This is not the miners’ strike. The sort of people … The ‘competition ratio’ for those jobs has got tighter over recent … represents almost 100,000 healthcare workers.
“Unlike resident doctors, the …
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The red MP: Shapurji Saklatvala’s fight for workers and freedom
17 Feb 2026 20:23 GMT
… the eve of the General Strike, was imprisoned for two months … on soldiers not to shoot workers.
Sak’s outstanding work was … in south Wales for a miners’ meeting in the morning, … of Wandsworth Council and longstanding Labour councillor Tony Belton. The event …
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Lindisfarne – The Exchange 1856, North Shields – Live Review
17 Feb 2026 21:13 GMT
… impact of the miners’ strike when many Geordies lost their jobs and sought …
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The Death of Fleet Street
16 Feb 2026 18:57 GMT
… against labour the previous March, when the brutal Miners’ Strike came … Wapping, which did not employ the traditional hot-metal typesetting … not done a great job of addressing the situation … Unfortunately, the print workers who lost their jobs in the Wapping …