Bob Murray: "We don't need another community organizer ... I'm the guy that does creat jobs"

[phantom power]

Wow. Let it all hang out, Bob.

A coal industry CEO told students at a small Quaker boarding high school to prepare for jobs in coal mines and power plants, rather than study philosophy or become community organizers.

“We don’t need another community organizer,” said Bob Murray, the chief executive of Ohio-based Murray Energy, to “revolutionize the country.” Instead, he said, students need skills for jobs in the real world, and “I’m the guy that does create jobs.”

Oddly enough, the venue for Murray’s talk was at the Olney Friends School’s sustainability summit in Barnesville in October, where teachers, students and alumni were imagining how the Southeast Ohio school would fare in facing the end of the fossil fuel age, and how they might build a green economy in the region.

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-12-27/advice-students-understand-money-localize

[handmade34]

1. Once we all wise up

to alternative energies... Bob Murray won't be "creating" any stinkin' jobs...

...and, if we had more community organizers we could truly "revolutionize the country" much quicker, more efficiently and with more benefit to the most people...

time to think and act green, start co-ops, buy local, support each other, boycott large corporations... it is well past time to get the revolution going.

[TomClash]

2. I guess that job creation stuff ain't workin' too well, Bob

21 Local Coal Miners Laid Off
Updated: 4:57 pm EDT July 14, 2010

The Ohio Valley Coal Co. said Wednesday it will lay off 21 miners at the Powhatan No. 6 mine.

According to a news release, company officials indicated they could not reach a deal with the United Mine Workers of America. The layoffs will take effect on Monday.

The mine is the only union-represented mine operated by any Murray Energy subsidiary.

http://www.wtov9.com/news/24260502/detail.html



Mass Layoffs Updates for June 22, 2009

Murray Energy Corp.'s subsidiary, UtahAmerican Energy, Inc. has announced the mass layoff of fifty-two coal miners. UtahAmerican officials said that the layoffs will impact 31 employees at its West Ridge mine, 11 at its Tower mine, five at the Crandall Canyon mine and five more at the Wildcat loading facility where coal is put on trains for delivery to customers.

http://www.totalbankruptcy.com/news/mass-layoffs/us-mountain-west.aspx

Job seekers: You might want to look in greener pastures than these companies.



Organizations announcing or rumored layoffs week ended 11/20/09:

Murray Energy, Brilliant OH (91)

http://www.recareered.com/blog/2009/11/20/whos-firing-layoffs-week-ended-11-20-09/