Coal mining

Turkish unions, charging “murders,” stage national strike over mine disaster

May 16, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

"The horrific news coming from the coal mine near Soma is a punch in the gut for every coal miner everywhere in the world."

Today in Eco-history: Coal mine disaster kills 128

April 8, 2014 By Special to PeoplesWorld.org

The mine was operated mostly by African American prisoners who, under Alabama's onvict lease system, had been "leased" to the mine owners. Regardless of how minor their crimes were, all of them rdied in the disaster.

Judge OKs Patriot Coal plan to renege on miners’ pensions

June 3, 2013 By Press Associates

A federal bankruptcy judge in St. Louis has left Patriot Coal's retirees - whom it inherited from Peabody Energy and Arch Coal - high and dry, and said Patriot could dump its union contracts, too.

Miners arrested in protest against coal company

January 29, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

The nation's largest coal companies created the spin-off company, Patriot Coal, in a scheme to rob thousands of union members and beneficiaries of their pensions and health care benefits.

Pickets protest Murray Energy layoffs

December 18, 2012 By Rick Nagin

Activists picketed the corporate headquarters of Murray Energy in this Cleveland suburb Dec. 17 protesting the anti-labor and right-wing policies of company owner Robert E. Murray.