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Related: About this forumCoal Company Rehires Workers After Pinning Blame For Layoffs On Obama
By Rebecca Leber on Jan 25, 2013 at 9:08 am
Throughout the 2012 presidential election, Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray used his employees as a political tool to try to defeat President Obama. Murray allegedly forced miners to attend a pro-Romney rally without pay and to contribute to Republican candidates. He announced layoffs at mines in Ohio and Utah, claiming that Obamas war on coal has cost jobs and hurt his business.
But months after blaming Obama for layoffs, Murray Energy is looking to hire back workers. Alec MacGillis reports this includes mines in Ohio and Utah, which had announced layoffs in the days following the election. At the time, Murray claimed the drastic time forced survival mode layoffs:
Its opened back up theyre hiring people, said Gary Parsons, a former superintendent at the mine who worked there for five years before being laid off with the announcement of the shutdown last summer. Parsons himself has not been called back, and is planning simply to retire early, but he said he had talked to several locals who were taking steps to get hired back on. He said he did not understand why, after the big headline-making closure last year, things were perking up at the mine. I dont know whats going on, he said. They said they was going to close the mine down.
Another former Murray employee confirmed that operations were picking back up at Red Bird West. Theyve called back some hourly folks. Theyre definitely starting it back up.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/25/1494451/murray-coal-layoffs/
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Coal Company Rehires Workers After Pinning Blame For Layoffs On Obama (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2013
OP
What a bullshit stunt that was. I hope the laborers shove wooden shoes in the machinery gears. n/t
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2013
#1
Terrific reference. I remember reading the definition of 'sabotage' Great word.
CurtEastPoint
Jan 2013
#3
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)1. What a bullshit stunt that was. I hope the laborers shove wooden shoes in the machinery gears. n/t
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)3. Terrific reference. I remember reading the definition of 'sabotage' Great word.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)4. I wonder if that's why wooden shoes are called clogs.
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)2. So it was all for show and bluster, huh, Mr. Murray? Pig.