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Janszoon 11-17-2012 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1251451)
I wonder if we should just assume that all the layoffs that are happening currently are businesses simply firing people because they're butt-hurt.

Doesn't seem like a good strategy to take as a business owner.

Just thinking out loud here.

In this guy's case it certainly sounds like what's going on.

Guybrush 11-17-2012 08:07 AM

I didn't know you can just get laid off like that over there. Don't you have unions and workers rights?

The Batlord 11-17-2012 09:12 AM

I was seriously disappointed when I read this article and it wasn't in fact about a baby that had somehow inherited a company, and then been used as a puppet to fire it's workers.

Janszoon 11-17-2012 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1251486)
I didn't know you can just get laid off like that over there. Don't you have unions and workers rights?

We have unions, but they're not always effective and not everyone is in one. Considering this Murray's political views, his mines are probably non-union. We have workers' right as well, but they're not particularly effective at preventing the big guy from screwing over the little guy.

TheBig3 11-17-2012 10:11 AM


Romney Supporter Murray Energy Lays Off 100+ Workers "Because of Obama" - YouTube

Bloozcrooz 11-25-2012 10:53 PM

Doesn't suprise me at all...I was told before the election by several oil and gas drilling companies that they were on a hiring freeze till after the election. Thats the case for a lot of buisness's around my area of all kinds. People aren't wanting to take any chances with Obama back in office and are cutting back or simply not expanding.

Janszoon 10-26-2020 02:13 PM

Sorry for the thread necro, but...

Coal baron Murray, a Trump ally who fought environmental regulation, dead at 80
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Murray retired on Oct. 19 after 63 years in the coal business, shortly after applying for federal benefits to treat his black lung disease, a respiratory illness caused by prolonged exposure to coal dust, according to a report by West Virginia public radio.

A colorful and outspoken leader of the Ohio company he founded, Murray Energy, Murray blamed environmental regulation for the demise of the coal industry and opposed more stringent coal dust regulations for years.

The Batlord 10-26-2020 02:51 PM

I'm just going to assume that Black Lung is a bad way to go and raise a beer to coal dust.

OccultHawk 10-26-2020 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2141060)
I'm just going to assume that Black Lung is a bad way to go and raise a beer to coal dust.

We should spray paint “murdered by Trump covid 19” on his tombstone

The Batlord 10-26-2020 03:21 PM

But... he didn't die of COVID...


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