| In 1920 black mineworkers staged a major stoppage following the arrest of two miners. |
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| Thousands of Zimbabwean mineworkers from mines owned by Rio Tinto have gone on strike to demand a 150 percent salary increment. |
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| More than 160 mineworkers at the Pasminco Rosebery mine in Tasmania went on strike for 48 hours last Sunday. |
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| I know there's a huge debate around Fanakalo as a language but mineworkers use it. |
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| At its peak in 1911, the colliery employed 2,700 mineworkers, though only 250 of these were indigenous to Warsop Vale. |
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| But these sectarian Baptists find their interests intertwined with the mineworkers, many of whom are their fellow members or clergy. |
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| At Harmony Gold, 9,000 mineworkers at the mine backed the one-day strike, closing down operations. |
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| He attracted a following of peasants, Old Believers, Ural mineworkers, and non-Russians such as Bashkirs and Kalmyks. |
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| The government tried to get the mine owners and mineworkers to hold a conference, but no agreement could be reached. |
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| There are mineworkers hoping to become nurses, police officers, prison officers, driving instructors and yacht skippers. |
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| If the closures go ahead, hundreds more coal mineworkers and their families in hard hit regions will be thrown on the industrial scrapheap. |
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| The last serious strike by mineworkers was at the former Tsumeb Copper Limited mine in 1997, just before it was liquidated. |
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| Despite the assault upon the mineworkers and the injunction, the 1922 strikes had revealed no concerted and pervasive antilabor policy. |
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| Pressure last night mounted on the Government to end the shame of some former mineworkers crippled by coal dust being denied proper compensation. |
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| The general secretary of the pit deputies union said it was ironic British mineworkers were wanted in Australia. |
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| The supervisors have a statutory responsibility for the health and safety of mineworkers, so if the strikes go ahead, pits are expected to close. |
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| My father died from mineworkers ' pneumoconiosis and my father-in-law died of emphysema. |
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| On 16 December a march of several thousand mineworkers converged on Rothbury in an effort to prevent the resumption of work, but were refused admission to the mine. |
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| Mozambican women have been sold as wives and domestic labourers to mineworkers, babies are trafficked for adoption and people are trafficked for ritual muti killings. |
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| Hundreds of coal mineworkers descended on Sydney this morning for a march on Australian Industrial Relations Commission over a decision they fear will costs lives. |
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| The latest report by mine management said eight mineworkers were alive, four had died and two were seriously injured and had been separated from the group. |
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| Sixty mineworkers defied a Coal Industry Tribunal order this week to disband their picket line outside Wesfarmers Premier Coal in Collie, Western Australia. |
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| A lot of men went into the mines where some mine companies actually actively promote drinking for the mineworkers in their off-hours to keep them a little bit complacent. |
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| Skilled mineworkers were recruited from other regions to the Ruhr's mines and steel mills and unskilled people started to move in. |
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| In 1984 and 1985, after the government announced plans to close many mines across the UK, mineworkers went on strike. |
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| On a hill overlooking the town is the former Nottinghamshire headquarters of the National Union of Mineworkers. |
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| The former headquarters of the National Union of Mineworkers next to Sheffield City Hall has stood empty since 1994, when the union decamped to Barnsley. |
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| In January 1945 the MFGB was superseded by the National Union of Mineworkers. |
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| Miners in the National Union of Mineworkers, led by Arthur Scargill, struck against the closure of collieries. |
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| A National Union of Mineworkers meeting heard that this would mean a minimum of PS140 a week for coalface workers and PS80 a week for those on the surface. |
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