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188 miners to be laid off in Buchanan County (Virginia)
WCYB.com ^ | May 2, 2014 | WCYB.com

Posted on 05/02/2014 12:20:03 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

CONSOL Energy announced in a press release Friday that they will be reducing the operating schedule at the Buchanan Mine, resulting in the lay-offs of 188 employees.

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"CONSOL Energy has announced it will reduce the operating schedule at its Buchanan Mine in southwest Virginia to two production shifts per day effective immediately.

The announcement is in keeping with first quarter earnings results reported earlier this week, and previous guidance issued which noted that the company was prepared to exert continued production discipline, as needed, to align with current global met coal market conditions. The action will result in the lay-off of 188 employees, including 39 salaried employees and 149 hourly employees. Employees were notified of the operating schedule change earlier today. The mine will operate with two production shifts per day, down from three. Third shift operations will be limited to maintenance activities.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: coal; obama; waroncoal
More casualties from Obama's war on coal. And no, these are NOT union miners nor are they Democrat voters.
1 posted on 05/02/2014 12:20:03 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

How do you know they are not Democrat voters?


2 posted on 05/02/2014 12:23:06 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Timber Rattler

More REAL hardworking Americans taking a hit from the Obama regime machine.


3 posted on 05/02/2014 12:23:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Obama hates people.


4 posted on 05/02/2014 12:23:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Timber Rattler

I believe coal prices are down. They closed the coal power plant in Glen Lyn Va


5 posted on 05/02/2014 12:25:34 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: caver

Because this is my home area and they are my friends and family.


6 posted on 05/02/2014 12:28:55 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: AppyPappy

The coal prices are down because Obama’s has been deliberately destroying the market and driving them down to unsustainable levels.


7 posted on 05/02/2014 12:29:49 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler

Ah, OK......


8 posted on 05/02/2014 12:31:03 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: caver

See the map. Click it if you like to see the source. The deeper the blue (this map has it right), the less the percent of votes for ObaMao. Notice how deep blue SW Virginia is.

This, of course, does not guarantee that a handful of fools in this group might have voted for him. But it does show how coal country feels about him.

9 posted on 05/02/2014 12:31:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Timber Rattler
Virginians living near DC (most of whom were born elsewhere) couldn't care less.
10 posted on 05/02/2014 12:31:13 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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But yet they complain when their electricity rates skyrocket, just as Obama planned.

Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket

11 posted on 05/02/2014 12:35:11 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Vigilanteman

Great map! Thanks for posting. That explains a lot.


12 posted on 05/02/2014 12:38:58 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Timber Rattler

Thanks, Obama voters.

Yet more jobs lost because of you.


13 posted on 05/02/2014 12:44:08 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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14 posted on 05/02/2014 12:47:58 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ScottinVA

“Thanks, Obama voters.

Yet more jobs lost because of you.”

Not so sure that these people were exactly enthusiastic supporters of Democrats BEFORE coal got killed.


15 posted on 05/02/2014 12:50:30 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Timber Rattler

Buckhanon puts out Met Coal. This layoff has nothing to do with Coal-Fired Power Plants being shut down.


16 posted on 05/02/2014 4:44:32 PM PDT by chopperman
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To: Timber Rattler

I live in WV as well... It is a union slavery state so most of our jobs are union. Our 2010 elections were gun grabber joe and all the others were dem except one house and one state senate.
The saddest stories are the families and friends who continue to vote for a party that has a stated goal of taking their jobs.
Same story as the minorities who continue to vote dem and suffer immensely for it.
Here in my neck of the woods it’s union and dem. I see glimmers of rebellion but the numbers aren’t stronger than the dem tradition.
In such a heavy gun lovers haven I bet they still vote Manchin the gun grabber every time.


17 posted on 05/03/2014 2:54:19 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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