Posted on 10/16/2004 4:05:42 PM PDT by Sadie789
The job recruiters are mentioned in this article in the Houston Chronicle.
Miners can start at $40,000 to $50,000 but can make as much as $100,000 if they work all available overtime.
Coal mines encounter shortage of workers Aging work force and high demand worry industry Burning Need By CHARLES SHEEHAN Associated Press PITTSBURGH - While much of the country struggles with a difficult job market, coal companies are in a heated competition for workers. They're raiding each other ... http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2848046
***The United Mine Workers Career Centers Inc., which retrains displaced coal miners in several states for other jobs, has just applied for federal funding to begin training new coal miners. ****
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/101604/d0116coalcrunch.html
No offense to any miners, but I've had relatives work in the mines. You earn every dime you make. It's hard, dirty, dangerous work. No wonder there is a shortage of workers.
My Great Grandfather settled in Dickson City, Pennsylvania in the 1910s to work in the Anthracite coal mines there. I still have the gas-lamp he used down there. Unfortunatly, he died of the "black lung" when my grandmother was only 7.
Ain't no worse than lawyerin'.
Hey, an honest days pay for an honest days work. You decide.
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