I can't understand suffering and still have faith in drumpf and Moscow Mitch.
'A tweet would be great:' Kentucky coal miners call on Trump for support amid ongoing payment showdown
It's an encampment of pop up tents congregated on and around railway tracks, tucked away in a narrow valley near Cumberland, Kentucky. A cornhole game lies in the middle of the tracks, ready for people to use to pass the time.
What you can't see from the highway is a mine and a train full of coal that is blocked by the encampment that sits in the middle of the tracks.
Coal miners, current and former, with family and other supporters, are there with one demand: The pay they say they are owed after their employer, Blackjewel, declared bankruptcy on July 1.
They are in a legal limbo -- they were never technically laid off by Blackjewel, they say, which complicates their situations.
Coal miners in Trump country block train in bitter fight
"Some of these guys have family members who are sick. They don't have healthcare. They can't get their unemployment just because it was cut out of their checks but it was never paid in," Cumberland Mayor Charles Raleigh told CNN. "Their 401Ks are deadlocked because they haven't technically quit. They haven't been laid off. Then you've got child support that, you know, it's been cut out of these guys' checks, never got paid in, so now some of them are getting warrants. And it's just not right."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/02/us/kentucky-blackjewel-coal-miners/index.html
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