Posted on 09/08/2015 1:20:23 PM PDT by george76
The union era's death knell sounded in Kentucky on New Year's Eve, when Patriot Coal announced the closing of its Highland Mine. The underground mine in western Kentucky employed about 400 hourly workers represented by the United Mine Workers of America.
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Union membership remains substantial in West Virginia, with more than 30,000 members, largely because that state wasn't affected by the environmental regulations on high-sulfur coal that essentially halted mining in western Kentucky in the 1990s.
Smith said those western Kentucky mine shutdowns led to the loss of about 20,000 union members in two years.
(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...
Send Republicans to the Senate, we’ll kill all your jobs.
Send Democrats to the Senate, and you’ll get a pass.
Message received loud and clear.
And where was YOUR Sentor McTurtle on this subject....
oh yeah, he was busy kissing obuma’s butt!!!
Mitch really helped Kentucky LOL
so lemmee see ifin I gots this straight...
union mining jobs... OK..
non-union jobs.. anti American..
please clarify for me..
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