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Coal Miners Union To Joe Manchin: Support Build
POLITICS
Coal Miners Union To Joe Manchin: Support Build Back Better
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) said the Build Back Better Act would provide benefits to coal miners in West Virginia.
“The bill includes language that would extend the current fee paid by coal companies to fund benefits received by victims of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, or Black Lung,” UMWA President Cecil Roberts said in a statement Monday. “But now that fee will be cut in half, further shifting the burden of paying these benefits away from the coal companies and on to taxpayers.”
The $2 trillion bill would also “provide tax incentives to encourage manufacturers to build facilities in the coalfields that would employ thousands of coal miners who have lost their jobs,” the statement said. The bill would also provide stronger union protections for workers, Roberts said.
“But now there is no path forward for millions of workers to exercise their rights at work,” he
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