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TESTIMONY: Alabama's Warrior Met Coal And Wall Street Greed

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By Braxton Wright, Facing South
| Popular Resistance
Above Photo: UMWA-affiliated mine workers at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, have been on strike since April 2021. Last November, they held a protest in New York City outside of BlackRock, a hedge fund that owns the largest stake in Warrior Met. (Still from UMWA footage of that protest). This month marks one year since 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers of America went on strike at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama following the failure of the union and company to agree on a labor contract.
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TESTIMONY: Alabama's Warrior Met Coal and Wall Street greed

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By Braxton Wright
| Facing South Verified
This month marks one year since 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers of America went on strike at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama following the failure of the union and company to agree on a labor contract. The strike continues today. Warrior Met was created to buy the assets of Walter Energy after that company declared bankruptcy in 2015.
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