Saturday, October 03, 2009
Massey Vows To Appeal Ruling Of National Labor Board
The National Labor Relations Board has sided with the United Mine Workers Labor Union in connection to a long-running court battle with Massey Energy. The board has upheld a ruling by an administrative law judge who determined Massey violated federal labor law by refusing to offer jobs to 85 union miners who were left without a job when Massey subsidiary Mammoth Coal Co. took over operations after Massey bought the company they worked for out of bankruptcy in 2004. The board ordered Mammoth to pay the miners for loss of earnings and benefits and to recognize the UMWA as the miners union and negotiate with the union at the mines. Massey CEO Don Blankenship says the company did not discriminate in their hiring and that the company had offered the miners their jobs, and Massey plans to appeal.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 7:37 PM 
