About 1,000 miners have been on strike against Warrior Met since April 2021, resisting brutal working conditions.
On August 3, the United Mine Workers of America and the Associated Press reported that the subunit of the National Labor Relations Board for Region 10 has ordered the union to pay $13.3 million to Warrior Met Coal.
This workforce routinely does six-day weeks and 12-hour days. The company operates on Sundays and almost all holidays. A hated company policy fires workers automatically if they miss four days of work in a year, even because of health problems or family emergencies. The $13.3 million NLRB judgment is more than half of the strike pay distributed to 1,000 strikers in 16 months. The UMWA provides only $350 a week, or $18,000 a year, for miners’ families to live on. The money grab goes to a company that made $146 million in profit for January to March this year and last yearUMWA president Cecil Roberts denounced the NLRB judgment.
Questioning whether the NLRB is at its core pro-worker, neutral, or pro-employer — and why — cannot be sidestepped. Many unionists believe that the NLRB is taking or will take progressive, pro-labor actions. In fact, the NLRB intervened as a referee to require a revote on unionization at Bessemer, Alabama Amazon . It has started pressing cases against Starbucks for some union busting firings.
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