{"id":9427,"date":"2012-11-10T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9427"},"modified":"2012-11-10T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T18:51:41","slug":"why-robert-murray-fired-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/why-robert-murray-fired-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Robert Murray Fired Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

When coal executive, Robert Murray, wasn\u2019t insuring some of his workers will be killed by violating regulations for their safety or forcing his employees to attend Republican campaign rallies without compensation, he was threatening his employees with termination if Obama wins to intimidate them into voting against their own interests.  Now he has cut back on his work force because of market conditions that are not related to Obama\u2019s election, but he is lying to his workers and telling them it\u2019s because Obama won.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"10coalminers\"Throughout the presidential campaign, Republicans repeatedly accused<\/a><\/font> the Obama administration of waging a "war on coal." This despite the fact that the number of coal jobs is actually <\/strong>higher now<\/strong><\/a><\/font> than it was when President Obama took office<\/strong>, and that many of the reasons the industry has lost jobs in the past year have nothing to do with Obama<\/a><\/font>\u2014like the lower demand for coal because of cheap natural gas or declining quality in reserves<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Now that Obama won, at least one mining executive is aiming to make the "war on coal" real by laying off a bunch of workers. In Carbon County, Utah (yes, that’s really its name), UtahAmerican Energy Inc. announced on Thursday that it has laid off 102 employees in response to Obama’s reelection. It is a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corp., which is, as you may recall, the same company that told Ohio miners that they had to <\/strong>attend a Romney rally in August<\/strong><\/a><\/font> and that <\/strong>reportedly threatened employees’ jobs<\/strong><\/a><\/font> if they didn’t support the company’s conservative-aligned political action committee<\/strong>\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

…Murray Energy also laid off<\/a><\/font> 54 miners that worked for its American Coal subsidiary in southern Illinois on Wednesday. A Reddit poster says that he was among the workers laid off at one of those mines (he doesn’t mention which). He posted a link to a press release<\/a><\/font> that he says the company distributed to the laid off workers, as well as this statement:<\/font><\/p>\n

I worked at a coal mine that decided today to layoff over 40 employees and the only reason that was given was that "America has betrayed coal miners" by re-electing President Obama. Despite the fact that nothing has changed in the two days since the election they decide to lay off employees. I’ve seen how corrupt the company can be over the years and am fairly certain the layoffs are just a way to make the President look bad<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Inserted from <Mother Jones<\/a>><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz discusses Murray’s antics with Larry Cohen.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I fully agree here. We need to take the approach that Republican assaults on any of us are assaults on all of us.  Standing together is the only way to project our nation from vulture capitalists.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When coal executive, Robert Murray, wasn\u2019t insuring some of his workers will be killed by violating regulations for their safety or forcing his employees to attend Republican campaign rallies without compensation, he was threatening his employees with termination if Obama wins to intimidate them into voting against their own interests.  Now he has cut back […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}