The workers have taken action just as demand is quickly rising from Warrior Met customers, which include steel producers in Europe and Asia, particularly China – demands the company will be pressed to meet during a strike. Inventory dropped 7.2% in 2020 due to weaker demand after the COVID-19 pandemic began, and then fell sharply after the beginning of 2021. S&P Global/Platts noted that Warrior Met’s inventory of coking coal, used in steel production, is currently very low. (See Workers World, “Lessons of ‘The Hammer and the Hoe,’” Dec. Now the UMWA strike in Alabama is ramping up even more pressure on global capitalism, with determined miners who are rooted in a long tradition of union actions in the state. The spark of those workers appears to be igniting a new defiance in worker actions. The BAmazon campaign focused international attention on the majority Black Alabama workers going up against the second-largest employer in the U.S. The Brookwood mines are located 40 miles southwest of Birmingham and 30 miles southwest of Bessemer, where Alabama Amazon workers await the result of their recent vote on representation by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The strike involves workers at two mines, one preparation plant and Central Shop. On April 1, the United Mine Workers of America announced that more than 1,100 workers at the Brookwood, Ala., locations of Warrior Met Coal (WMC) had gone out on strike and were walking the picket line.
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