[Reily]

Union leadership's job is to feather their own nests!
The UMW exists parasitically off the miner. The last legitimate working man the UMW had as its leader was probably Arnold Miller. After he left the scene the UMW went back to being a union thug-ocracy.

[Gummi Bear]

Thanks for answering that question. I’m unfamiliar with the whole subject of unions, but couldn’t figure out why they would be backing 0bama.

[curth]

It probably will fall on deaf ears, but there is nothing to lose by trying.Send the UMW all of the info available. The UMW has a contact page here:
http://www.umwa.org/index.php?q=content/contact-umwa