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U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case About Coal Pensions
The high court declined to take up a case that would have challenged financially troubled coal companies’ use of bankruptcy law to end federally mandated payments to the industry’s multiemployer pension plan.
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Judge rules coal company can eliminate Kemmerer retirees' health care, union contract
Retired coal miners from Kemmerer likely lost their company health benefits Friday when a judge decided that Westmoreland Coal Co. could eliminate retirement health care and a union contract in
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Retired coal miners from Kemmerer likely lost their company health benefits Friday when a judge decided that Westmoreland Coal Co. could eliminate retirement health care and a union contract in order to sell the Kemmerer coal mine to a Virginia businessman.
Kemmerer, WY voted 83% for Trump, 77% for Cheney, and 83% for Sen. Lummis in 2020.
But Manchin and Sinema think there is a compromise to be found with the people who represent those bozos...