Management’s offer would not allow the miners’ pay to keep pace with the inflation their allies are causing while these elites profit big from these blue-collar workers’ labor.
On Nov. 4, New York City police arrested a group of coal miners peacefully protesting outside the Manhattan headquarters of BlackRock, the biggest financial asset manager in the United States. The demonstrators were there because of a bitter strike by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) that began last April against Warrior Met Coal, Inc., which mines non-thermal metallurgical, or “met,” coal in Brookwood, Alabama.
Warrior Met is a leading U.S.-based producer […]
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