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United Mine Workers of America

LC control no.n 50062445
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Corporate name headingUnited Mine Workers of America
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Variant(s)United Mine Workers (U.S.)
UMWA
UMW
U.M.W.A.
U.M.W. of A.
Miners' Union (U.S.)
See alsoNational Federation of Miners and Mine Laborers
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National Progressive Union
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Beginning date1890-01-25
Field of activityCollective bargaining
Found inPerry, C. R. Collective bargaining and the ... c1984: t.p. (United Mine Workers) introd. (United Mine Workers of America)
The Miners' strike bulletin, July 1927, surrogate: p. 1, etc. (Miners' Union; U.M.W. of A.)
Wikipedia, February 21, 2019 (The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. The UMW was founded in Columbus, Ohio, on January 25, 1890,)