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Coal miners lost pay when Mitt Romney visited their mine to promote coal jobs

MaggieD said:
Only in your Socialist Mind.

I don't know why you would say the law was never intended to be used that way. That's exactly how the law was expected to be used. "Let's give the teachers a day off from working in the classroom, pay them and make them attend an Obama rally." Don't be silly.
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Do you bother to read my posts or do you just respond reflexively?

From my post, which you quoted

The law has good justification but it seems like another instance in which a corporation has taken advantage of a decent law in ways that were never intended by the legislators who passed the law in the first place.

Your 'example' of teachers being forced to attend an Obama rally, when many teachers probably support the President, and being paid for the "day off" is exactly the type of "good justification" I meant. Forcing mine workers to attend a rally and provide a backdrop for photos for a politician most don't support (as was evident due to their complaints) is not a "good justification"
 
tessaesque said:
From the article:



And this from another article:


So what I'm getting from this is that the mine had to be shut down due to safety concerns, and whenever there is a shut down it is unpaid.

Few things:
1. Unpaid shut downs are not Romney's policy, they are the coal industry's. I've never been paid for days when my place of employment had to shut down due to weather or safety concerns, even when I was salaried. It may be an issue of contention, but they have rights and means of addressing the much larger issue here, and they should utilized the tools available to them if they don't agree w/unpaid shut downs.

2. The only way to avoid a safety-related shutdown would likely have been to avoid the campaign stop altogether. Sure, that could have been done. But then, lets consider this:



So yeah, Romney could have avoided the stop and saved a day's pay for these miners. But nothing he's done or indicated would result in the permanent loss of pay for several hundred employees.

It's all in how you want to spin it. What's worse?
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Please don't inject facts into a post like this. It throws a lot of people off their game.
 
My problem with this is that they company didn't apy the workewrs when they closed down the plant, which is fine, but when they made the employees attend the rally, on their own time, that was not right.

If the mine is closed down, and I am not going to get paid for that day, the time is mine, not the companys.
 
Arbo said:
You realize that whenever one of the candidates heads somewhere, things get shut down, people don't get paid, and the cost to the local community soars due to security and such? Happens with both of them.

You are trying to make an issue out of a normal occurrence.
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To offset this evidently glaring issue, Obama could hand out unemployment checks at his next rally and then send a bill for them to the worker's children.
 
How about this quote then:
Because the company's mine had to be shut down for "safety and security" reasons during Romney's visit, Moore confirmed workers were not paid that day. He said miners also lose pay when weather or power outages shut down the mine, and noted that federal election law doesn't let companies pay workers to attend political events.
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You really do your party's interests more harm than good by reaching for silly stuff like this. It's not like there nothing real and important to point out but this crap trivializes everything else. Bad strategy.
 
Somerville said:
It is surprising that so few seem to understand the true goals of those promoting the Romney candidacy. If you are not part of the 1% today, your chances of ever reaching that level of income will drop dramatically under the 'leadership' of the modern Republican Party

Coal miners in Ohio got a taste of what life will be like under corporate rule
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Please help me out. I don't remember you expressing this kind of rage when the Kenyan virtually shut down the Connecticut town for his $35k a plate fundraiser (which the town had to pick up the expense of extra security with no reimbursement). If you did, please show me where.

This story is from a local Cleveland rag. If the objectivity of the Cleveland ad reporting this is the same as the reporting objectivity of the Dim controlled local rag here ... then what was printed is to be expected. I wonder if the source people giving their views are actual employees of the company.

Anyhoo ... at this point, all I can do is give this entire thread a great big YAWN.

A L
 
Another Lurker said:
Please help me out. I don't remember you expressing this kind of rage when the Kenyan virtually shut down the Connecticut town for his $35k a plate fundraiser (which the town had to pick up the expense of extra security with no reimbursement). If you did, please show me where.

This story is from a local Cleveland rag. If the objectivity of the Cleveland ad reporting this is the same as the reporting objectivity of the Dim controlled local rag here ... then what was printed is to be expected. I wonder if the source people giving their views are actual employees of the company.

Anyhoo ... at this point, all I can do is give this entire thread a great big YAWN.

A L
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Oh! Oh! Couldn't be that the most recent polling has Ohio in a dead heat, could it? 18 electoral votes ain't nothin' to sneeze at.
 
MaggieD said:
From your link:



Why do so many posters just LOOK for things to blame on Romney/the Republican Party/the 1%'ers?
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I don't know, why do you look for reasons to blame Obama for the sun going down at night?
 
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