Posted on 08/18/2015 9:31:35 AM PDT by aimhigh
SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. (AP) -- Busloads of United Mine Workers of America miners and retirees roared in protest outside Patriot Coal headquarters Monday, as the bankrupt company looks to nix a union contract that includes pension contributions and health benefits.
From a makeshift stage on the bed of a tow truck, UMWA President Cecil Roberts bellowed out to a camouflage-clad crowd of 1,500 to 1,800 miners and led them in a march to nearby Patriot headquarters. UMWA packed twenty-two buses of miners from Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, according to union spokesman Phil Smith.
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liberal on liberal crime....liberals ruin coal industry.....coal industry to survive has to cut liberal union benefits....liberal unions then bitch.
They voted it on themselves. Just like the UAW.....let ‘em rot with what THEY VOTED FOR.
note story....got nothing to do with China! Nothing to do with Mexico! Self inflicted liberalism run amok in environmental and union law.
IF they were smart they would also be picketing that ahole Obama for all the new coal regs that are driving coal companies out of biz.
Huh?
Where? What? Gosh darn it, someone do something!
:D
It never ceases to amazz me. These same assholes voted for the guy thats putting the scdrews to them. Then they have the gall to protest agaisnt the ones that were feeding them and their families after they voted to shut them done. Screw them and their union pensions . The idiots didn’t care how it effected the rest of the country.
Obama said he would bankrupt the coal industry and their union said “vote for Obama”.
And MY electric bill went up, too ... just like he said it would.
Coal Union Workers: (votes for Obama in droves)
Obama: Keeping with my promise, I completely screwed over the coal industry.
Coal Union Workers: DAMN THOSE REPUBLICANS!!!
Here in PA, the weeks running up to the election; there were radio ad’s blitzing the airwaves warning that obama intended to ruin the coal industry. They even played obama himself talking about bankrupting coal companies. The idiot union’s voted for “their” guy anyway. I have absolutely no sympathy for them, none. They brought this on themselves.
Send an Email to all employees containing The Bozos “necessarily bankrupt” speech. Then run it on continuous loop from the windows of the HQ building.
They don’t seem to be able to connect the two.
....obsessing over China and Mexico won’t help this a damned bit....just sayin....
Karma is a bitch.
Sadly, few of these people will ever connect their support of energy hating leftists with their job losses. Logical reasoning is not required to be a Democrap.
..and thus, Michigan continues to vote Democrat (in national elections).
Hey I was just responding to your post.
Did I respond wrong? I didn’t actually say anything.
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Good luck, guys.
So, in the future if you contract for work with ANY company, try to get as much money up front as possible, and make sure you have a contingency plan to recover your costs outside of bankruptcy ruling.
This isn't a democrat/republican/union thing. There's no shortage of slimy crooked businessmen and bankers out there, and they WILL screw you over if you give them the slightest opportunity.
Contrary to your popular belief, all businessmen are NOT noble, nor honorable, and neither are the union bosses, or the government regulators.
Like I said, have a plan when they renege on their end of a contract.
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