Bozita
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Fri Jan-06-06 11:20 PM
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What were the wages and fringes for workers in that non-union WV mine? |
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Edited on Fri Jan-06-06 11:21 PM by Bozita
I've read all of the articles I've run across and most of the op-eds. I've yet to run across that info.
The TV coverage showed me a town and people who seem to have completely missed the current Bush boom times.
How in the hell could towns in coal mining areas of WV have voted for Bush?
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tularetom
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Fri Jan-06-06 11:24 PM
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1. I don't know about the non union mines |
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Edited on Fri Jan-06-06 11:31 PM by tularetom
but I heard somewhere in the last few days that the average pay for miners (generic term) was about $50k per year and some made up to $80k with "moderate" overtime. From the context it seemed to me that this was the average for all miners union and non, but I could be wrong. In any case these folks are not working for minimum wage. It seems that they are paid well, as indeed they should be for the nature of the work they do.
On edit: It's probably just a matter of time however until the mine owners bring in immigrants to do the same work for half the pay and then these guys who are doing the work now will either have to work for less or they'll be out on their ass. Such is life in *'s Amurca.
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Bozita
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Fri Jan-06-06 11:28 PM
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4. I read that UMW members made an average of about 60k plus bennies |
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But this mine wasn't union.
The folks I saw weren't making anything near that.
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Fri Jan-06-06 11:33 PM
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and working bright and early on NEW YEARS'S DAY.
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Fri Jan-06-06 11:24 PM
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2. stupid, ignorant, bigoted, religiously insane. |
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there aren't many other explanations. How do people keep forgetting what everybody knows?
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine Picked up a shovel and I walked to the mine I hauled Sixteen Tons of number 9 coal And the straw-boss said, "Well, bless my soul"
You haul Sixteen Tons, whadaya get? Another older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store
Born one morning it was drizzle and rain Fightin' and Trouble are my middle name I was raised in a canebrake by an old mama lion And no high-toned woman make me walk the line
You haul Sixteen Tons, whadaya get? Another older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store
See me comin' better step aside A lot of men didn't and a lot of men died I got one fist of iron and the other of steel And if the right one don't get ya, the left one will
You haul Sixteen Tons, whadaya get? Another older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store
Born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine Picked up a shovel and I walked to the mine I hauled Sixteen Tons of number 9 coal And the straw-boss said, "Well, bless my soul"
You haul Sixteen Tons, whadaya get? Another older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store
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Fri Jan-06-06 11:24 PM
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3. I heard on CNN $17-18 an hour (edited to add 12 hr shifts) |
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Edited on Fri Jan-06-06 11:25 PM by rosebud57
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Bozita
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Fri Jan-06-06 11:37 PM
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7. Did they mention any benefits? |
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Health, dental, and vision care?
I don't intend this in any demeaning way, but it didn't appear that dental insurance was common in this town.
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Sat Jan-07-06 09:35 AM
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11. They did not say but if you don't get dental care until you join the work |
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force it may be too late. I think if you live in coal country $17-18 an hour seems like good money worth risking your life for. The quote was predeath of the miners and was sapecific to that mine as it was in reference to the newest miner, who was trapped.
If it is $50,000 a year it is probaly because of a 60 hour work week.
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Fri Jan-06-06 11:31 PM
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5. Great question that I'll recommend, provided we get an honest |
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Sat Jan-07-06 12:14 AM
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8. Upshur County voted for Bush . . . |
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by 67% to 33%. But for the most part, the coal fields (primarily in the southern part of the state) voted for Kerry.
Don't ask me why -- I didn't vote for the dim son.
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Sat Jan-07-06 12:17 AM
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9. I hope the media follows the civil suit. |
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there will be one. that's when all the shit's going to come out re: working conditions.
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Sat Jan-07-06 12:20 AM
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10. I beleive that the starting salary for someone like |
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McCloy was about $30,000 a year. Good money for that area. Housing costs are not that high so you could own your house in 10 years or so, if you don't have too many kids to support.
the votes that blivet** got, I beleive, were because he was going to keep the coal burning plants open by not regulating their emissions. Plants that burn coal still operating means job security.
Remember, these are the same people that elect Byrd time after time. Without these mines (or ones like it) the state could have rolled up the sidewalks years ago.
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