United
Mine Workers Union President Cecil Roberts and International
Secretary-Treasurer Daniel Kane have been reelected to new five-year terms.
Both were reelected by acclamation.
“I am extremely honored to be given this
responsibility for another five years,” Roberts said in a prepared statement.
“To have the trust of the membership of this union and for them to continue to
have such confidence in our leadership is humbling.”
Roberts
was first elected UMWA president in 1995.
The union also chose other
international union officers and Auditor/Tellers including the first woman to
serve in a UMWA office in the union’s 124-year history. Tanya James is from West Virginia and will serve as Auditor/Teller for the
eastern U.S.
