United Mine Workers of America. Health and Retirement Funds
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Suzanne Rhodenbaugh, Compiler, Records Regarding United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3801
Overview
Collection of files compiled by Suzanne Jaworski Rhodenbaugh regarding the Health and Retirement Funds of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA Funds) and other managed health care programs. Rhodenbaugh worked for UMWA Funds. Includes reports, correspondence, clippings, strike records, histories, studies, and related material regarding health clinics in the coalfields. Includes two historical narratives by Georges S. Goldstein, including: 1. "A History of Medical Care Delivery in the Coal...
Dates:
1949-2003; Majority of material found within 1974-1979
United Mine Workers of America, District 29, Records Regarding Health Care Providers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4043
Overview
Records of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), District 29 Office, regarding arrangements between the UMWA Welfare Fund (or UMWA Health and Retirement Funds) and health care providers. The 1978 Coal Wage Agreement changed the Funds managed health care plan to a fee for service plan. District 29 encompasses southern West Virginia.
Dates:
ca. 1950-1978
United Mine Workers of America, Health and Retirement Fund, Director John D. Winebrenner, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3104
Overview
The correspondence, travel vouchers and articles of John D. Winebrenner, a regional director of the UMWA Health & Retirement Funds in Tennessee. Papers and publications reflect the problems and contributions of organized medicine and the promotional efforts of the United Mine Workers of America in meeting the diverse medical needs of coal miners, particularly the majority of miners who lived and worked in remote areas. Publications included The Boone Report and Medical Services for Rural...
Dates:
1948-1972
United Mine Workers of America, Health and Retirement Funds, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2769
Scope and Contents
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) archives consists of the records of the first industry-wide pension and medical care plans for coal miners and their families in the United States. The archives comprise approximately 156 linear feet of records from the years 1946-1974, and include minutes, resolutions, correspondence, memos, reports, transcribed speeches, lawsuit documents, construction plans, contracts, statistical reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, microfilmed reading...
Dates:
1915-1989
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Dental care 1
- Dentists 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 1969. 1
- Health services. 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Silicosis 1
- Tennessee 1
- United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds - copayment system. 1
- Virginia 1
- Vocational rehabilitation 1 + ∧ less
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