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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 5, 1989: The United Mine Workers launched their strike against Pittston Coal Co., eventually winning concessions by Pittston on February 20, 1990. The strike started in response to Pittston’s termination of health care for widows, retirees and disabled veteran miners. During the strike, there were 2,000 miners camped out daily at Camp Solidarity, and up to 40,000 total engaging in wild cat strikes, civil disobedience, picketing, occupations and sabotage. The strike reduced Pittston’s production by two-thirds, while over 4,000 strikers were arrested during the strike.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #pittston #coal #mining #strike #wildcat #disability #CivilDisobedience #sabotage #solidarity #police #healthcare

Women strike supporters, singing, wearing camouflage t-shirts.
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 5, 2010: Twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. In 2015, Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was convicted of a misdemeanor for conspiring to willfully violate safety standards and was sentenced to one year in prison. He was found not guilty of charges of securities fraud and making false statements. Investigators also found that the U.S. Department of Labor and its Mine Safety and Health Administration were guilty of failing to act decisively, even after Massey was issued 515 citations for safety violations at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2009, prior to the deadly explosion.

So, the U.S. Dept of Labor, back when the U.S. staffed and funded its regulatory agencies, allowed a murderous boss to get away with 515 safety violations, resulting in the deaths of 29 miners, without any consequences for its bosses. And the courts gave the murderous CEO of Massey Energy a year in a Country Club prison for those same 29 worker deaths. But they’re gonna try Luigi Mangione for first-degree murder and seek the death penalty because he supposedly killed a murderous white-collar crook?

As they say, there is no Justice for the working-class; but there’s plenty of “Just Us” for the wealthy, as in court rulings just for them; subsidies and tax right-offs just for them; elite clubs and resorts just for them; and the right, just for them, to kill their workers and consumers in the pursuit of profits.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #explosion #workplacedeaths #coal #westvirginia #workplacesafety #profits #workersafety

Photo of Upper Big Branch Mine disaster Memorial by Steven Rotsch, with silhouettes of the victims on black marble wall. By Original work: designed by Rob Dinsmore of the Chapman Technical Group and built by Pray ConstructionDepiction: Steven Rotsch - small 320 size of https://www.flickr.com/photos/governortomblin/7659008962/, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70502796
Strypey

Vanadium can be found both in Aotearoa;

stockhead.com.au/resources/nzs

... and Australia;

nationaltribune.com.au/vanadiu

Obviously we don't want the mining done by the profit-obsessed corporatist sociopaths whose ecocidal views are represented in these articles. But if we can find environmentally sensitive ways to obtain this mineral, for use in grid-scale flow batteries, this could make a significant contribution to our energy independence.

#energy #EnergyIndependence #mining #vanadium

NZ’s new pro-mining government boosts approval prospects for Manuka’s massive vanadium-titanium project - StockheadStockhead
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 3, 1891: Deputized members of the National Guard fired on immigrant strikers in the Morewood massacre, in Pennsylvania. They killed at least ten workers and injured dozens more. The workers were organized with the new United Mine Workers, and were fighting Henry Clay Frick, the same industrialist responsible for the massacre at Homestead the following year, and the man who anarchist Alexander Berkman attempted to assassinate, also in 1892.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #massacre #anarchism #alexanderberkman #HenryClayFrick #strike #umw #nationalguard #pennsylvania #mining #coal

Miners and their families getting evicted at gunpoint from company housing during the strike. By Pittsburg Press - Coal Mine and Coke Oven Reclamation and Preservation Project Phase II:Early Coal Mines of Henry Clay FrickWestmoreland Fayette Historical SocietyProject Director: Cassandra Vivian“On the Warpath,” PittsburgPress, April 23, 1891. Scrapbook, April 18 to May 12 1891, Henry Clay Frick Business Records 1862-1987, Helen Clay Frick FoundationArchives, (AIS 2002 06), Henry Clay Frick Business Records, Scrapbook Series, Box 496, Volume 9, p. 41. Archives Service Center,University of Pittsburghhttps://www.westovertonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Early-Coal-Mines-of-Henry-Clay-Frick.pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74704449
MediaFaro Analysis

The EU hones in on Central Asia in race for raw materials.

The EU has raised billions for the region to diversify supply chains and reduce dependence on China.

Experts say the idea is to offer competitive deals and build local industry while encouraging sustainable mining.

mediafaro.org/article/20250402

#EU #Minerals #Mining #CriticalMinerals #SupplyChain #RareEarth

The EU hones in on Central Asia in race for raw materials.DW
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