To be frank, the membership needs to step up and hammer its leadership for failure to represent.
Also, these arrests happened in Pittsburgh PA. That’s adjacent to WV geographically, but not politically.
Well, if you mean that 0bama carried Pennsylvania twice and West Virginia zero times, then that is correct. Also, since the UMWA is headquartered in Pittsburgh, it was way more convenient for Cecil Roberts than Charleston or Beckley would have been.