"Don't cross picket lines because if you cross picket lines it's scabbing and it's about time Notts miners stopped being scabs"#OnThisDay 1984. Nottinghamshire miners leaders, Ray Chadburn and Henry Richardson, call on their miners to join #MinersStrike

#OnThisDay 1984. Mounted police keep the roads clear to Ravenscraig steelworks for coal convoys.131 lorry loads of coal flow into the steelworks despite a Transport and General Workers’ Union appeal for lorry drivers to respect picket lines.

Workers organized by a key union rally in Bolivia against scrapping fuel subsidies

Today in Southern labor history, we remember the Pittston Coal strike. In the late 1980s, Pittston Coal tried to boost profits by cutting healthcare for retired miners, slashing coverage for active workers, and running mines 7 days a week with no overtime. When United Mine Workers of America tried to bargain, the company refused — leaving 1,500 workers without health benefits. On April 5, 1989, 2,000 miners in Virginia walked out. Workers organized militant, largely nonviolent protests and block

The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5: an oral history