Big Business Strikes Again...

Once again in America, Big Business feels perfectly within their rights to screw the hard working little guy in order to increase their profits...

--ryan

Coal miners stage second protest outside bankruptcy court



LEXINGTON, Ky. Hundreds of miners plan to protest today outside a hearing in Kentucky because of concerns that the judge might void union contracts with one of the nation's largest coal companies.
Horizon Natural Resources has asked the bankruptcy judge to let it stop buying health insurance for 23-hundred retirees. Some 800 to 900 of those are in Illinois, the rest in West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky.


Illinois miners started heading down to Kentucky by bus yesterday to participate in the protest in Lexington.

They want the judge to require Horizon to honor its labor contracts.

But Horizon spokesman Matt Isner says every offer to buy the company has been based on the condition that the union contract be voided.