United Mine Workers of America
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4.6
- proper noun
- US
:
Trabajadores Mineros Unidos de América
- During the labor strike, the United Mine Workers of America organized protests to demand safer working conditions.
Examples
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Many of the workers at the coal mine belong to the United Mine Workers of America to protect their rights.
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The United Mine Workers of America has fought for better wages and benefits for coal miners in the region.
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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.
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And for all that environmental regulations have turned the United Mine Workers of America against Obama this year, they aren't.
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Even the United Mine Workers of America, traditionally a potential political force for Democrats, has chosen to remain silent on endorsements this year, though the union endorsed Obama in 2008.
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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.
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More than 400 organizations representing tens of thousands of individuals sponsored the rally, bringing together groups like the Sierra Club, United Mine Workers of America, and the NAACP.
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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.
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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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Fearing this might be a pretext for an attack, armed strikers of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) took up a position in a railroad cut overlooking the station.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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3.6
A North American union for people who work in mines
Surface Forms
Morphology
united + mine + worker + of + America
The name is compositionally transparent: 'United' (joined together) + 'Mine Workers' (people who work in mines) + 'of America' (in the United States) directly yields an organization of mine workers in America. Although it is a proper name, a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer it denotes a labor organization representing miners.
Etymology
United Mine Workers of America comes from a simple image: miners joining together. It shows the workers in the mines across America standing united to protect each other, so today it means 'a labor union representing mine workers'.