mining

800 coal miners with the EPMU have been engaged in industrial action since Monday June 25th after negotiations in their multi-employer pay agreement (meca) broke down earlier this month.

Miners in Mexico launched an unlimited wildcat strike on Wednesday last week.

The National Union of Mine-workers has rejected a 6% offer and is instead demanding that miners receive a 15% increase.

Miners at Sweden's state-owned mining company LKAB started the unsanctioned walkout on Monday, and on Tuesday morning work was at a standstill in…

At least 15 workers have been killed after an explosion in a coal mine in the northern province of Shanxi.

A unlimited strike has come to an end after the goverment agreed to the miners' demands.

Last week the Chinese media reported that on average one mining accident every week…

A short history of the massive strike movement against welfare reform in France in 1995.

A short biography of Italian miner, Franco resister, publisher and anarchist Franco Leggio.

Short history of South Wales anarchist mine worker James Colton, who, as well as being a key figure in Welsh anarchist history, also married Emma…

Dave Douglass looks back on the great miners strike, twenty years on. Recalling information about…

Notes on the strike of UK mine workers against closures and to save their union, the NUM. The article contains interesting information about the…