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Jody Dukart is the Auditor/Teller for Canada of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), a position he took up in October 2017, following the retirement of Cape Breton’s Bobby Burchell.

A visit from the Task Force on the Just Transition for Canadian Coal-Power Workers and Communities to Estevan on June 14 resulted in numerous meetings and plenty of discussion.

On December 16, 2019, the over 300 employees of the Estevan Mine, members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Local 7606, ratified a four-year collective agreement.

It felt like the weather was crying as the names of Saskatchewan workers, who have lost their lives at workplaces, were read.

In 2018, 48 men and women were killed on the job. On the National Mourning Day April 28, the Estevan community honoured their lives during the ceremony by the Coal Car. Names of six of the 16 people who died during the Humboldt Broncos crash were read, including former members of Estevan Bruins organization Darcy Haugan and Mark Cross.

A few members of Parliament who recently toured energy-related facilities in the Estevan area came away impressed with what they saw, particularly when it came to the mining operations.

Thanks to the members of the Estevan Fire Rescue Service for all that they do in the community, and to the advertisers who supported this year's promotion.

The union wants to refurbish the tombstone in the Bienfait cemetery, at the gravesite of the three members who died in Estevan Riot on Sept. 29, 1931.

It's been 89 years since the Estevan or the Black Tuesday Riot, when three striking coal miners lost their lives in a confrontation with the RCMP, fighting in the hope to improve their wages and working conditions.

The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Local 7606 and International Brotherhood of electrical Workers Local 2067 have released more information on a project that they received federal funding for.