CBC SudburyMar 13
Workers' advocate starts registry of sarcoidosis patients to push for research into occupational exposure
Sudbury workers' advocate Janice Martell says about 15 of the 700 miners she has registered who were exposed to aluminum dust known as McIntyre Powder have been diagnosed with a relatively rare disease called sarcoidosis which she says raises questions.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sarcoidosis-disease-occupational-job-related-mining-silicosis-9.7124649?cmp=rss
Working Class HistoryMar 6
📣 New Podcast! "UK Coal Miners Bring down Conservative Government" on @Spreaker #1970s_uk #1974_british #1974_edward #britain_national #coal #crisis #day #election #energy #heath #labor #miners #mineworkers #movement #of #strike #strike_three #uk #union #week
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/uk-coal-miners-bring-down-conservative-government--70369198
UK Coal Miners Bring down Conservative Government

On this day, 6 March 1974, UK coal miners called off their four-week strike after accepting a 35% pay offer in a massive victory, which had already brought down

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Working Class HistoryMar 5
📣 New Podcast! "Miners’ vs Thatcher: Battle That Changed Britain" on @Spreaker #british #coal #era_thatcherism_national #history_coal #history_working #industry_1980s #labor #miners #mineworkers_arthur #of #politics_modern #scargill_british #strike_british #strike_uk #thatcher #trade #uk #union
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/miners-vs-thatcher-battle-that-changed-britain--70369201
Miners’ vs Thatcher: Battle That Changed Britain

On this day, 5 March 1984, the great UK miners’ strike began when miners at Cortonwood colliery walked out in response to the Conservative government’s anno

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MikeDunnAuthorMar 3

Today in Labor History March 3, 1985: Arthur Scargill declared an end to Britain’s National Miners’ Strike. The miners returned to work without winning any major demands. After the strike, most of Britain's coal mines closed, supposedly because they weren’t profitable. Consequently, the union shrunk from 170,000 members down to 100 by 2015. Margaret Thatcher declared the miners the “Enemy Within.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #miners #britain #MargaretThatcher #union

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Feb 24
1 Bloomberg: The renewed plunge in the shares of perceived victims of the #AI revolution has #investors wondering where to turn for shelter. One answer, according to #GoldmanSachs, is #capital-intensive companies such as #utilities, #miners, some #industrialfirms and even #luxury-goodsmakers. 🧵
LongreadsFeb 19

"I came looking for history. Instead, it began asking something of me. Not remembrance—that was easy—but response."

Masha Hamilton traces her great-grandfather's escape from the 1917 Bisbee Deportation: https://longreads.com/2026/02/19/bisbee-deportation-vigilantes-miners/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Essay #History #Deportation #Bisbee #Arizona #Strike #Miners

Vigilantes at Dawn

A forgotten deportation, a family archive, and the cost of belonging.

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MikeDunnAuthorFeb 19

Today in Labor History February 19, 1990: After a 10-month strike, rank-and-file miners at the Pittston Coal Co. ratified a new contract. Ninety-eight miners and a minister occupied a Pittston Coal plant in Carbo, Virginia, inaugurating the year-long strike. While a one-month Soviet coal strike dominated the U.S. media, the year-long Pittston strike received almost no media coverage in the U.S. The wildcat walkouts involved 40,000 miners in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. Over 2,000 people occupied Camp Solidarity. Miners and their families engaged in Civil Disobedience, pickets, work stoppages and sometimes sabotage, vandalism and violence. Over 4,000 were arrested.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #pittston #coal #strike #union #miners #sabotage #vandalism #picket #CivilDisobedience #solidarity #soviet #wildcat

Mathrubhumi EnglishFeb 19
Five miners are trapped 800 meters underground after a mudslide flooded a South African diamond mine shaft. Rescue efforts are underway to reach them. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/south-africa-5-miners-trapped--800-metres-underground-diamond-mine-bbcu32g8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Miners #DiamondMine #SouthAfrica #Flood #Mudslide
Explore Your ArchiveFeb 17

New blog alert from us:

Spotlight on the North Staffordshire Miners’ Wives Action Group Archive https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/exhibition-north-staffordshire-miners-wives-action-group-archive/

#archives #keele #staffordshire #archivists #miners #women

Exhibition: North Staffordshire Miners' Wives Action Group Archive — Explore Your Archive

I’m Rebecca Wells. As part of my final year (2024/25) studying English Literature at Keele University, I was given the opportunity to […]

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Kyiv Independent Daily HeadlinesFeb 3

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Russians chose a freezing February night: Damaged buildings, casualties reported as Russia resumes strikes on Kyiv amid large-scale attack -- Instead of 6 missiles, there are only 2; Ukraine's Air Force reveals dire air defense shortage --Russian forces trying to bypass and infiltrate Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast -- How Kyiv Zoo is protecting life through the coldest and darkest winter of the full-scale war ... and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/tuesday-february-3-2026/