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Mee
Pounding Mill, VA
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I know what you mean. We all just need to pray that things are back to normal. I saw a paper that said they were having a co. picnic in aug. any truth to that??
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Hello
Pounding Mill, VA
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Any news on what is going on at united now??????
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hello back
AOL
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as far as anyone can tell---business as usual---rich ones playin golf, riding mercedes and hummers
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Mee
Pounding Mill, VA
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Was nice of them to say they were having the workers a picnic then cancel it right??
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you got it
Fairmont, NC
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as of today if united coal had 30% mangagement that repocoa had before it was bought out and 20% of encouragemment to the men to produce coal with a descent attiude then the men that work for them today would have the other 50% covered.in other words show the men respect and they will show the company respect...25 year employer.D.P.
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Mee
Pounding Mill, VA
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heard the picnic was back on. things must be looking up. just keep praying!!!
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Zeus wrote: <quoted text>
That is totally stupid. This would have happened no matter who was in office. You need to get your facts straight.... I seriously doubt that any other - namely McCain would have scared the investors as bad as Obama has with his "Cap & Trade" legislation. If you don't believe this then you are clearly following the man blindly with the rest of the Obamatards.
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Hurley Gal
Nicholasville, KY
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My husband works there the picnic is back on for September 11th but there are rumors of another layoff or cutting there hours back again.. My prayers go to the men working there and the ones that were layed off
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Mee
Pounding Mill, VA
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I agree with you Hurley Gal. I pray that things are back to somewhat normal. I know these men need to work to support their families. We all need to just keep praying that things will be fine. And I thought the picnic was on Sat. the 19th the 11th is on a Friday.
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Margaret
Duluth, GA
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stressing wrote: <quoted text>
He works for United at wellmore. I don't know what kind of meeting it was but things seem to be going ok for now. They get out a half hour early every night but were told they may have to work a few saturdays so things may be good for a while.I hope things get lined out soon the recent week off without pay knocked us back a bit. I'll be keeping all of you in my prayers!
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ritchie
Grundy, VA
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just got layed off today monday the 16 of july they said they lay off 40 some men at pawpaw at hurley va
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looking
Grundy, VA
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Hey they are looking for men over at bandy at blue diamond coal.Also at Mercle Bluestone at Kimball W.Va.
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Grundy Girl
Grundy, VA
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trye wrote: <quoted text>
How's it Obamas fault you moron... Everyone knows how it is Obamas fault !!! How coud you call soeone who just lost theirjob a moron ? If Obama wasnt so anti coal none of this would have gotten so bad !!!! Whatch the new and get some morals before you come on here and disrespect someone buddy !
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Grundy Girl
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Reality wrote: <quoted text>
You are absolutely totally unbelievably 110% ignorant!! You are a racist!! There is no place for racism in our society!! There is no excuse for you!!
This country was in an economic crisis before President Obama ever took office. Did you forget about the banking crisis, the wallstreet crisis, the auto industry crisis, the mortgage meltdown??
It was only a matter of time until the coal industry suffered also.
There's one thing people seriously need to think about before judging someone based on race/color:
Human beings were made in the image of God. No human has ever seen the face of the Almighty. He could very well be the very color you have just insulted!! I agree that you should not judge someone for their color ! But he is the one who swore to put an end to coal and made it hard for the coal industry to get the permits need to run a mine !! If he is so into clean energy and against mountain top removal, coal and his so called health care... then he needs to go without the power and air conditioning that coal makes ... have the same health care system that he has put on everyone else and move his big ol butt out of the city where nothng is the way God made it !!! Does he think the cities and Washington was just FLAT when time began ??? If he is so against all these things ... Lets see him do without them !!!
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Riddle Me This
Grundy, VA
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The Pony Express, telegrams, telephone operators... what do these things have in common with coal?
Gone extinct
Keep sportin those "Don't like coal- turn your lights off" shirts and gaudy stickers
I'll enjoy my electricity powered cleaner by natural gas :-)
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loveWV
Bickmore, WV
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chill out wrote: <quoted text>the 2 weeks off is so the BIG WHEELES OF UNITED can go on vacation and enjoy the money ALL the men made for them..it will pick back up after they get back..it happens this way every summer and christmas think about it...to bad they dont think about the men..hope they enjoy vacation,because the men that worked for them sure is not going to..THINKS UNITED FOR STICKING IT TO US AGAIN.......... The time that mines close is a tradition dating way back. It is known locally as the Miners'Holiday - always over the 4th of July. When mines were unionized, I believe the workers were paid. But since the large companies broke the back of the UMWA by subcontracting to non-union, privately owned mines,it is a layoff more than a vacation. This shift away from unions - with lower wages and fewer benefits started back under Pres. Reagan and has expanded terribly since. So it goes for the middle class.
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loveWV
Bickmore, WV
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Grundy Girl wrote: <quoted text>
Everyone knows how it is Obamas fault !!! How coud you call soeone who just lost theirjob a moron ? If Obama wasnt so anti coal none of this would have gotten so bad !!!! Whatch the new and get some morals before you come on here and disrespect someone buddy ! Girl - you don't know your history. In the late 1990s and early 2000, when coal was $13.00 a ton, a lot of miners were laid off. Obama is not anticoal; he'santi dirty coal. Those coal burning plants that are being shut down in Va are spewing mercury and other crap. The new plant near Castlewood will be cleaner. Would you want your children to get brain and nerve damage from mercury and dirty coal? I grew up with clean hydroelectric power - the power source was free and clean.
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