Since August, staff at the National Coal Mining Museum have been striking in a row over pay. Many of them are ex-miners, who have told the BBC how they feel about returning to the picket line more ...

An MP has urged the trustees of the National Coal Mining Museum to "intervene urgently" to reinstate negotiations with staff who have gone on strike in a pay dispute. Members of Unison at the museum ...

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 ...

Arvin Hanshaw, of Summersville, W.Va., wears a hat with a miner silhouetted by the state of West Virginia, as he joins a group going to Washington, D.C., to protest the government's delay of the ...

Girardville’s nearly 200-year history reads like a rollercoaster of ups and downs in the Schuylkill County anthracite region.

Thermal coal could climb 46% per tonne if the Iran War disrupts liquefied natural gas producers for another month or two, reopening a profit window for War-driven LNG squeeze revives thermal coal: ana ...

One of the most important chapters in the history of the anthracite coal industry concluded 123 years ago this month. The Great Strike of 1902, a landmark in the annals of labor-management relations, ...