Since August, staff at the National Coal Mining Museum have been striking in a row over pay. Many of them are ex-miners, who ...

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became a ...

A strike by over 40 workers at the National Coal Mining Museum in a dispute over wages is to be extended into the new year, a ...

Coal mining is indelibly woven into the fabric of daily life in the mountains of southeast Kentucky, but a decline in the ...

Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

Don Blankenship says companies justified in fighting black lung cases. April 8, 2014 — -- The former boss of one of the nation’s largest coal companies, who was known for his iron-fisted control ...