Bush Sticks it to Coal Mine Workers in Renominating Stickler

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/09/07/bush-sticks-it-to-coal-mine-workers-in-renominating-stickler/


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Bush Sticks it to Coal Mine Workers in Renominating Stickler

President Bush’s Sept. 5 renomination of Richard Stickler to head up the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) shows “the White House apparently has greater concern for politics than mine safety,” says Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.). Stickler failed to win Senate approval earlier this summer.

The Mine Workers (UMWA) union and other mine safety advocates questioned the former coal industry executive’s commitment to mine safety and his safety record at the coal mines he ran.

The nation’s focus on mine safety intensified this year following the Jan. 2 Sago (W. Va.) mine explosion that killed 12, a deadly fire shortly after at another West Virginia mine that killed two and the deaths of five Kentucky coal miners in another explosion. So far this year, 37 coal miners have been killed on the job, more than in any full year since 2001.

UMWA President Cecil Roberts says Stickler’s entire career:

has encouraged production over safety. By renominating Richard Stickler…President Bush has ignored the will of the U.S. Senate and added insult to injury to coal miners and their families.

FULL story at link above.

[rubberducky]

1. Death seems to follow bush.

[demosincebirth]

2. Good example why republicans hurt Labor and the

rest of the working class.

I wonder how many mineworkers voted for bush?