This was reported from the Huffington Post.
Can a company force workers to go to a non-work event without pay? Apparently they can in Beallsville, Ohio. This is the problem I have with the Republican way. Power is used indiscriminately with no regard to those on whom they trample. The powerful get what they want and the no so powerful be damned.
One of Mitt Romney’s latest campaign ads contains several seemingly unhappy miners standing behind the Republican presidential candidate. The message Romney's wanted to convey was that he was pro mining while his opponent was against mining. And supposedly this would reduce mining jobs. But the workers were really unhappy for another reason.
Grist first pointed out, that some of the miners work at Century Mine in Beallsville, Ohio. That mine was criticized in mid-August after it was reveaeled that the Murray Energy Company made the miners miss a day of work, without pay, to attend a Romney campaign rally.
"Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend," Rob Moore, Chief Financial Officer of Murray Energy Company, which owns the mine, told local news radio WWVA shortly thereafter. Attendance was mandatory.
The ad, which was posted on YouTube Wednesday, features co-workers of the men that feared not attending the event could cost them their jobs. That despite already sacrificing a day’s pay after the mine was shut down for the event.
The ad’s contention that the Obama administration has hurt the coal industry is suspect, as Philip Bump of Grist points out. In big coal mining states such asPennsylvania and West Virginia, the number of coal jobs has actually increased since 2009.
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