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TexasTowelie

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Sun Dec 8, 2019, 12:35 AM Dec 2019

Company lays off Kentucky miners after hiring them from Blackjewel

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — A coal producer that purchased multiple Kentucky mines and hired workers from a now-bankrupt company has laid some of the miners off.

State Rep. Angie Hatton said miners told her Friday that Kopper Glo, the company that purchased mines from Blackjewel LLC., has idled its mines until at least Dec. 26, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

Many of the miners worked for Blackjewel, which over the summer laid workers off with little notice, issued them bad checks, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had its Black Mountain/Lone Mountain division sold to Kopper Glo.

Miners protested and demanded their missing pay, sitting on railroad tracks and blocking coal shipments for two months. In October, under a deal with Blackjewel in U.S. District Court, nearly $5.5 million in back pay was to be issued to the miners.

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/12/07/kopper-glo-lays-off-kentucky-miners-after-hiring-them-blackjewel/4364815002/

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Company lays off Kentucky miners after hiring them from Blackjewel (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2019 OP
Not a problem. Trump is going to bring back their jobs. He said so. keithbvadu2 Dec 2019 #1

keithbvadu2

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1. Not a problem. Trump is going to bring back their jobs. He said so.
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 02:46 AM
Dec 2019

Not a problem. Trump is going to bring back their jobs. He said so.

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