'Our paychecks bounced': US workers in limbo as coalmines suddenly close
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Blackjewel files for chapter 11 in a move critics say is increasingly used to avoid paying workers what they are owed
On 1 July, Missy Cole was notified by her bank that her husband’s most recent paycheck had bounced, leaving their account more than $1,000 in the red. Her husband had worked as a coalminer for nearly three years at one of the eastern Kentucky mines operated by Revelation Energy affiliate Blackjewel mining.
But both companies had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, a financial move that has implications far beyond just laying off staff as the ex-workers now wait for bankruptcy proceedings to play out. Critics say the move is a ploy increasingly used in the struggling industry to avoid paying workers what they are owed.
“A layoff is always expected with miners. It’s always in the back of your mind and it’s no surprise when it happens in the coal industry. But this is much more than a layoff,” Cole told the Guardian.
“We have absolutely no access to our bank accounts. Those accounts are still negative, and falling deeper into the negative daily. We cannot even touch his 401(k) to withdraw money to survive on without the signature of the Blackjewel mining CEO or his personnel.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/22/blackjewel-mines-shut-down-layoffs-future
Since a lot of these miners voted for the trumpster.........................they now have a new worry too putting food on the table, guess what...............................they will have a whole new "means test".....................congratulations, now what do you think of your "guy"..........................and the cronies at the mine.....................pocketing your 401K savings........................because of the two books being used hiding the robbery, if you have money in savings, even if you can't get access to the savings or the bounced checks, you can't collect unemployment insurance, why might you ask, its an asset.........................
So, come next November 3, 2020 just think about all of those great jobs he said he was going to save for you, and the CEO of the mine ripping you off..........................and giving that money to trump for his re-election..........don't you just love being sold a bill of goods on making maga again, don't you................................
So the next time your in line for SNAP just thank your trumpster and how you support a narcissistic treasonous racist asshole that doesn't give one iota about you, but himself and his cronies...........................so put on that hard hat and or that red hat and that red white and blue shirt .......and then have your signs at his rallies and just smile, so that he can tell himself, while your cheering and wondering about your next plate of food chanting "send them back" (that maybe he and his trolls are talking about you) .............and while you stand in line for SNAP...........................knowing that he has now made another "means test" of outright bullshit of just lacking any empathy or vision except of his, I got mine, attitude, because after all who needs food, and you paid for that program ( Snap) to protect you in the event you are now in...............................
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142344802
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Let the gullible be the gullible 
