2004: Mexican Mine Workers Protest In Utah

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File this under "Jobs Americans Don't Want To Do For $5.25 In Deadly Conditions"

http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004b/040204/040204f.php

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1. 75 miners claim they were locked out of CW Mining Co.’s mine in Huntington, Utah....

after they protested unsafe working conditions.


There you have it.

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2. "lack of regulatory supervision over Co-op Mine baffles labor rights workers..."

"The lack of regulatory supervision over the Co-op Mine baffles labor rights workers. Three of the last seven mine fatalities in Utah have been at the Co-op -- those miners were crushed to death in three separate accidents since 1996. The picketing miners insist that training is inadequate and machinery is unsafe or defective. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has known about the situation since 1993 when it found numerous violations at the mine, including accumulations of combustible material, an electric shuttle car that held the potential for sparking a fire, inadequate ventilation underground, and improperly maintained fire extinguishers and emergency equipment. The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining also found aboveground violations, but legal action was not pursued by either agency."