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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
mineworker action this tuesday, august 27th in saint louis
Rally in St. Louis
Kiener Plaza in Saint Louis, Missouri
10am, same place
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
mineworker action in st. louis, 8-13
Video streaming by Ustream I was there and good turnout. another downtown demonstration planned for two weeks from today my understanding. will update
Monday, August 12, 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013
UMW, supporters to protest at Peabody HQ in St. Louis - Business, Government Legal News from throughout WV
UMW, supporters to protest at Peabody HQ in St. Louis - Business, Government Legal News from throughout WV
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Active and retired members of the United Mine Workers of America, along with labor and community supporters, will protest in front of Peabody Energy headquarters on Tuesday morning, Aug. 13.
"We are in ongoing talks with Patriot Coal to lessen the impact of severe cutbacks on active and retired miners, but nobody should forget who really caused this problem," said UMWA President Cecil Roberts in a prepared statement. "Executives at Peabody Energy created Patriot, they failed to give it enough assets to meet its obligations, and we're not going to sit idly by and let miners and their families pay the price for their failure."
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note will be a kiener plaza downtown. i will attend
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Active and retired members of the United Mine Workers of America, along with labor and community supporters, will protest in front of Peabody Energy headquarters on Tuesday morning, Aug. 13.
"We are in ongoing talks with Patriot Coal to lessen the impact of severe cutbacks on active and retired miners, but nobody should forget who really caused this problem," said UMWA President Cecil Roberts in a prepared statement. "Executives at Peabody Energy created Patriot, they failed to give it enough assets to meet its obligations, and we're not going to sit idly by and let miners and their families pay the price for their failure."
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note will be a kiener plaza downtown. i will attend
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
st. louis mineworker action on July 30
mineworker action in st. louis---july 30th
Video streaming by Ustream good turnout. striking fast food workers had many, many folks in crowd
Video streaming by Ustream good turnout. striking fast food workers had many, many folks in crowd
Saturday, June 1, 2013
McClellan: Patriot Coal case shows how federal judges live by their own rules : News
McClellan: Patriot Coal case shows how federal judges live by their own rules : News
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A federal bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday that Patriot Coal could ax its union contracts and slash retiree benefits as it seeks to reorganize itself.
This ruling was particularly galling to retirees who never worked for Patriot Coal Corp., which didn’t exist until 2007, when St. Louis-based Peabody Energy created it. At the time of Patriot’s creation, Peabody saddled it with millions of dollars of legacy costs, including pension and health care obligations for thousands of retired mine workers.
The company has collapsed under the weight of these costs.
St. Louisans have seen this movie before. When Monsanto “spun off” Solutia in 1997, it dumped about $1 billion of debt on the new company. That was on top of legacy costs and liability for environmental cleanup and litigation that went along with those environmental problems.
Not surprisingly, Solutia went bankrupt in 2003.
Rerun or not, this latest ruling hardly seems fair. Miners who retired long before Patriot was created are going to lose their health insurance. This insurance was promised to them. Not just verbally, either. Promised in a written contract
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note: it is established law that companies can and do dump cost in bankrupt courts. workers and retirees seem to be the first targets
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A federal bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday that Patriot Coal could ax its union contracts and slash retiree benefits as it seeks to reorganize itself.
This ruling was particularly galling to retirees who never worked for Patriot Coal Corp., which didn’t exist until 2007, when St. Louis-based Peabody Energy created it. At the time of Patriot’s creation, Peabody saddled it with millions of dollars of legacy costs, including pension and health care obligations for thousands of retired mine workers.
The company has collapsed under the weight of these costs.
St. Louisans have seen this movie before. When Monsanto “spun off” Solutia in 1997, it dumped about $1 billion of debt on the new company. That was on top of legacy costs and liability for environmental cleanup and litigation that went along with those environmental problems.
Not surprisingly, Solutia went bankrupt in 2003.
Rerun or not, this latest ruling hardly seems fair. Miners who retired long before Patriot was created are going to lose their health insurance. This insurance was promised to them. Not just verbally, either. Promised in a written contract
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note: it is established law that companies can and do dump cost in bankrupt courts. workers and retirees seem to be the first targets
Patriot can sever Mine Workers contract, cut retiree benefits, judge rules : Business
Patriot can sever Mine Workers contract, cut retiree benefits, judge rules : Business
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ST LOUIS • A federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday gave Patriot Coal Corp. the green light to ax its union contracts and slash retiree health benefits in its bid to stay afloat.
The ruling by Judge Kathy Surratt-States, which came after a weeklong court hearing and rowdy protests in the streets of downtown St. Louis last month, will give the struggling coal company a clear upper hand in negotiations with the United Mine Workers of America, and could lead to far less-generous health insurance for about 21,000 retired mine workers and their families.
Patriot, which filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July, has said it needs $150 million in savings from the union to keep its doors open. For that it needs lower labor costs.
The company has held 15 rounds of talks with the Mine Workers since November on its existing contract, which covers 57 percent of Patriot’s 2,900 miners, and swapped five rounds of proposals and counterproposals. Now it has the right to wipe out that contract entirely, starting June 1, though the union has threatened to strike if that happens
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note: in about two weeks, another mineworker demonstration in st louis. will post details
soar groups on both sides of river intend to send representatives
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ST LOUIS • A federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday gave Patriot Coal Corp. the green light to ax its union contracts and slash retiree health benefits in its bid to stay afloat.
The ruling by Judge Kathy Surratt-States, which came after a weeklong court hearing and rowdy protests in the streets of downtown St. Louis last month, will give the struggling coal company a clear upper hand in negotiations with the United Mine Workers of America, and could lead to far less-generous health insurance for about 21,000 retired mine workers and their families.
Patriot, which filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July, has said it needs $150 million in savings from the union to keep its doors open. For that it needs lower labor costs.
The company has held 15 rounds of talks with the Mine Workers since November on its existing contract, which covers 57 percent of Patriot’s 2,900 miners, and swapped five rounds of proposals and counterproposals. Now it has the right to wipe out that contract entirely, starting June 1, though the union has threatened to strike if that happens
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note: in about two weeks, another mineworker demonstration in st louis. will post details
soar groups on both sides of river intend to send representatives
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
soar action in st. louis, standing with mineworkers
many from granite city and I were with mineworkers downtown today
Thursday, April 11, 2013
photo of soar during 2nd peabody action in st. louis
note: there is another action next tuesday in st. louis.
granite city folks putting together bus for event. more info will be forthcoming
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Thousands protest outside Peabody headquarters, bankruptcy court : Business
Thousands protest outside Peabody headquarters, bankruptcy court : Business
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ST. LOUIS • Union miners outraged by the prospect of losing medical benefits and wages marched on the streets of St. Louis for the third time in as many months Tuesday, drawing roughly 2,000 fellow protesters and the largest crowd so far.
The turnout, organizers say, is evidence that momentum behind their campaign is growing — and that the coal miners' plight is gaining traction beyond the coalfields.
“This is not a coal miners struggle, this is a workers struggle,” Cecil Roberts, head of the United Mine Workers of America, told the gathered miners in a crusading speech outside the downtown headquarters of Peabody Energy. “The rest of the labor movement is getting behind this struggle.”
Roberts told the crowd that the NAACP and the AFL-CIO had both rece
ntly made statements of support for the miners. “The AFL-CIO is eight-million strong,” he said, “and they stand in solidarity with us.”
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ST. LOUIS • Union miners outraged by the prospect of losing medical benefits and wages marched on the streets of St. Louis for the third time in as many months Tuesday, drawing roughly 2,000 fellow protesters and the largest crowd so far.
The turnout, organizers say, is evidence that momentum behind their campaign is growing — and that the coal miners' plight is gaining traction beyond the coalfields.
“This is not a coal miners struggle, this is a workers struggle,” Cecil Roberts, head of the United Mine Workers of America, told the gathered miners in a crusading speech outside the downtown headquarters of Peabody Energy. “The rest of the labor movement is getting behind this struggle.”
Roberts told the crowd that the NAACP and the AFL-CIO had both rece
ntly made statements of support for the miners. “The AFL-CIO is eight-million strong,” he said, “and they stand in solidarity with us.”
Patriot Coal bankruptcy debate | ksdk.com
Patriot Coal bankruptcy debate | ksdk.com:
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took part today with Jeff Rains-Soar, Granite city president
good turnout, good speakers
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took part today with Jeff Rains-Soar, Granite city president
good turnout, good speakers
Friday, March 1, 2013
march 19th saint louis mineworker demonstration--fairness at patriot
miners and other plan a massive demonstration in St. Louis on March 19th
will begin at 10 am in front of the federal courthouse downtomn
after rally will then march to Kiener plaza and headquarters of Peabody coal
will advise if this changes.
note: been down there a couple of times and fully support the aims of the coal miners. I know what it is like for company not to honor committments
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Miners to protest again at Peabody headquarters - St. Louis Business Journal
Miners to protest again at Peabody headquarters - St. Louis Business Journal:
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Members of the United Mine Workers of America plan to march at Peabody Energy’s headquarters in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, their third such protest in recent weeks.
Hundreds of active and retired coal miners plan to march from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court on 10th Street to Peabody’s headquarters at 701 Market St., beginning at 10 a.m.
They say they are protesting “the scheme by executives of Peabody and Arch Coal to avoid payment of their health care obligations by creating a subsidiary – Patriot Coal – that was designed to fail.”
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several members of soar for st louis and granite city will be there as well
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