'Mr. Peabody's coal train ...'.Beginning with churches near the coalfields, more than 750 local and national religious leaders have put forth "A Call for Justice at Peabody Energy Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), previously Peabody Coal Company, is the largest private-sector coal company in the world. In 2006, Peabody sold over 247 million tons of coal. " that backs miners seeking to organize with the United Mine Workers of America United Mine Workers of America (UMW), international labor union formed (1890) by the amalgamation of the National Progressive Union (organized 1888) and the mine locals under the Knights of Labor. It is an industrial union, including all workers in the coal industry. . The campaign includes miners employed in Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, and Kentucky by the St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, the world's largest privately owned coal company. "Our religious teachings say that we are to treat others as we wish to be treated, and that laborers deserve their just reward," leaders said in the statement. Concern over recent mining accidents has rekindled religious leaders' support for the miners' struggle to choose a union without harassment or fear of losing their jobs, June Rostan, an AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. community organizer working with the UMWA UMWA n abbr (= United Mineworkers of America) → amerikanische Bergarbeitergewerkschaft campaign, told Sojourners. "We hope that the company will open their hearts and be moved," Rostan said. |
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