United Mine Workers
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- proper noun
- US
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Trabajadores Mineros Unidos
- Accounts do not say definitively, but the presence of two prominent local United Mine Workers of America members, James O'Connor and John Mitchell, indicated that the union was involved.
- United Mine Workers of America
- United Mine Workers union
- United Mine Workers local
Examples
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At this point, the leadership of the United Mine Workers of America advised local assemblies to settle for what they could.
Academic text (2000) -
Boone County, W.Va., coal was booming, Peabody Coal was the dominant company in the area, and the United Mine Workers of America was strong, fighting for miners' rights.
Blog text (26) -
All were United Mine Workers members at one time.
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The United Mine Workers had called for a nationwide coal strike to begin on 1 November.
Academic text (2014) -
The United Mine Workers union estimates that coal mine employment in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, western Kentucky, and northern West Virginia has declined more than 30 percent since 1990.
Academic text (1998) -
For most of the twentieth century, employers in the coal industry have negotiated with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) regarding the provision of employee benefits to coal miners.
Academic text (2000) -
The United Mine Workers of America, which within five years would become one of the strongest interracial and interethnic unions in the country, was hobbled by capital's victory in the 1894 strike.
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The United Mine Workers of America negotiated better safety standards for all its members.
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Last week, the United Mine Workers participated in a rally advocating for miners' rights.
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The United Mine Workers has been a crucial voice in labor discussions for over a century.
Synonyms
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A union that represents miners in the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'united' (combined) + 'mine' + 'workers' yields 'workers in mines who are united,' i.e. an organized group or union of mine workers. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer this basic meaning (even if they might not know the specific historical organization).
Etymology
United Mine Workers shows a simple picture of miners joining together. The word United means 'together', Mine shows they work under the ground, and Workers are the people who do the work, so the name means a group or 'union' that looks after miners' pay and safety.