HUGE Alabama Miners Strike Outside BlackRock's NYC Headquarters

Over 1,000 United Mine Workers of America members and their allies from Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Dakota, and West Virginia joined picket lines in a show of solidarity with UMWA workers at Alabama's Brookwood Mine, operated by Warrior Met Coal, of which BlackRock is the largest shareholder. The protest occurred outside BlackRock's headquarters in New York City Wednesday, with demands for better pay and benefits for the Alabama miners, who have been on strike for over four months as they seek a new collective bargaining agreement with Warrior Met.

We stream our live show every day at 12 PM ET.

We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to

Watch the Majority Report live MF at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at

Download our FREE app

SUPPORT the show by becoming a member

We Have Merch!!!

LIKE us on Facebook

FOLLOW us on Twitter

SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube

oh this is important so in alabama and uh i've done a couple interviews about this on the uh on the the peacock uh show um and we've talked about this and obviously uh we spoke to jacob down in uh in in alabama about the with matt i think you and i both were on his show to raise money for these miners right correct yep so um the miners uh down in um in alabama they came up to um to new york city to protest um uh warrior met right that's the name of the uh the the the company that owns the mine uh they are owned by i think blackrock um and the miners some of them came up to new york to strike the blackrock offices in new york city these guys have been on strike for now april may june july four months i think august 1st is four months um and they have been uh working for uh striking for better pay uh and and benefits um it is really uh quite something and um here is uh their their trip to new york city

that's a significant crowd and um you know there's some of that anti-corporate uh you know uh mentality that uh you know stoller was on we're not talking about uh that there should be um you know i mean when you have the disposition towards the corporations and broadly speaking society that government should be should be in there and actually like um exerting more power and control you know part of that ends up being more support for workers so in the context of uh non-compete uh clauses which is gonna increase the power of workers um but there's other mechanisms too it's more broadly just accepting that dynamic and then going from there in terms of the details it's just horrible the things that they've had to be have to put up with during this strike i mean i mean initially they took a giant pay cut and now they offer for to keep warrior met going and now that is profitable again they're getting just crumbs but also facing um of all the scabs are having pollution issues in trying to run the um run the place and also like being rammed and run through it by vehicles uh which is a very common uh site we're seeing in this country lately and it's really uh to get the uh the picture of what's going on down there the the the picket lines are very dispersed i think there's like 15 or 16 different entrances into the mine um and so that's been uh very uh dispersed down there but it's a very like uh tight-knit community um and so uh there's you know there's a history of of of at least like minor solidarity