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Many UMW miners worked for decades for Peabody, but had their union contracts shifted to Patriot in recent years.
They lost in bankruptcy court, but thousands of union miners were back in town — holding a boisterous rally outside of Peabody Energy headquarters.
“We know how bankruptcy works,” said UMWA President Cecil Roberts, “Bankruptcy courts, and judges and those beautiful buildings that we paid for is a farce.”
The crowd of miners who rode buses in from other states applauded loudly from the steps of Keiner Plaza.
The union is planning to appeal the bankruptcy court ruling that gives Patriot Coal permission to set aside its union contracts dealing with health care and retirement promises for thousands of miners. Many claim they worked all their career for Peabody, but had their union contracts shifted to Patriot in recent years.
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Recently, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a scathing report on the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) electronic reader pilot test and on the TWIC program in general… The GAO also said that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency charged with developing the TWIC program, has never determined whether the program has actually enhanced maritime security. It recommends that the proposed TWIC reader rulemaking be halted until successful completion of a security assessment of the effectiveness of using TWIC.
This leads me to ask why individuals working at a grain elevator that loads wheat onto a barge or ship on the Mississippi River are potential threats to the security of the United States while individuals loading wheat onto a railcar twenty miles away are not.
Why?
We have created a program that singles out one commercial sector for vastly heightened scrutiny and developed an overly-complex process for its implementation. I recommend that Congress immediately call a halt to further implementation of the U.S. maritime security program and direct the establishment of...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Five top executives at the Indian unit of American company Bunge have resigned amid an internal audit into possible financial irregularities at the world’s largest oilseeds processor and owner of domestic edible oils brands Dalda and Amrit.
The company’s director Ashish Saxena and chief financial officer Anand Vora have quit over what two senior executives with direct knowledge of the development described as “management differences” arising out of the outcome of the audit. Two other directors of the company – Sudhakar Rao Desai and Sanjay Jain – along with human resources head Sangram Chavan have quit for better prospects, the senior executives said.
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