UMWA President Cecil Roberts has announced that pickets are authorized to return to work at Warrior Met; there is still no contract for the miners who have been picketing for nearly two years.
The talks come seven months after an explosive article in Reuters revealed that a Hyundai-owned metal stamping plant had hired children as young as 12.
Since the beginning of the strike, nine inmates have died and footage of an Elmore corrections officer beating an inmate has gone viral.
A statewide work stoppage by Alabama inmates has entered its second week, garnering international attention. Inmates have reported that the state has retaliated by cutting their food rations and denying visitation privileges.
Republican Governor Kay Ivey has refused to enter discussion with the inmates and has said that their demands for better treatment and legal reform will not be considered.
Since 2010, around 150 women have been detained in the Etowah Detention Center in Alabama for using drugs during their pregnancies. Mandatory rehabilitation stipulations in Alabama’s chemical endangerment laws ensure that many of them will remain in jail indefinitely.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in September, nearly 21 million women lost unrestricted access to abortion. This week, laws going into effect in several states will make abortion even harder to access.
Weeks after irregularities with his execution raised journalists’ concern, an independent autopsy has revealed that Joe Nathan James was likely subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment for three or more hours before his death.
The National Labor Relations Board ruled on July 22 that the UMWA is responsible for $13.3 million in security costs and loss of profit at Warrior Met over the course of its year-long strike in Brookwood, Alabama.
The case of a missing teen from Enterprise, Alabama in February cast light on the use of child labor at SMART LLC., where children as young as twelve risk amputation and crushing to make parts for Hyundai’s most popular models.
The walkout was led by the store’s general manager Ta Edwards, who was fired immediately by upper management. The remaining workers were forced to return to work on July 5 after corporate falsely claimed they had repaired the restaurant’s AC unit.
On its one-year anniversary, the Warrior Met miners’ strike shed light on the escalating struggle between workers and the ruling class, as well as the irreconcilable conflict between rank-and-file workers and the corporatist unions.
The staggering figure of 200,000 children deprived of their caregivers represents an incalculable social and personal loss, which will impact all those affected for their entire lives.
At least 760 teachers and school staff in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, called out sick Wednesday to protest the alarming spread of COVID-19 and the district’s refusal to offer virtual learning.
As Omicron is identified across the Southern US, at least 13 children in the region have officially died of COVID-19 in the past month while the media remain virtually silent.
Judge James Robert, Jr. has renewed a strikebreaking injunction barring all picketing within 300 feet of company property.
The ongoing surge of child hospitalizations and deaths occurs against a backdrop of a global crisis in pediatric health, as well as mounting resistance to school reopenings from parents and educators worldwide.
Bus drivers for the Savannah Chatham County Public School System called in sick on September 3 to protest the district’s failure to provide drivers with reasonable protections against COVID-19.
Students at Bessemer City Schools walked out last Thursday to protest the district’s failure to notify parents about cases in schools. On Monday, night shift nurses at University of Alabama Birmingham’s Emergency Department ended Labor Day by refusing to clock in, citing unsafe conditions and unfair pay in relation to the pandemic.
Since 1,100 miners went on strike in April against Warrior Met Coal in Alabama, the United Mine Workers of America has done nothing to seriously oppose management’s strikebreaking tactics outside of impotent appeals to the NLRB and Wall Street.
