Union happy with new Obama crackdown on mine owners

[Enrique]

http://peoplesworld.org/union-happy-with-new-obama-crackdown-on-mine-owners/

WASHINGTON (PAI) - The Mine Workers are lauding an Obama administration plan to make it easier for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to crack down on coal companies who are constant safety violators.

But while UMWA President Cecil Roberts hailed MSHA's proposed rules covering "pattern of violations" (POV) operators, Roberts also called for more specificity, to help prevent MSHA from backsliding in POV enforcement.

MSHA Administrator Joe Main, a former UMWA safety and health specialist, announced the proposed rules on Feb. 2. "As I've said many times before, the current POV system is broken, and this regulation is the next critical step in reforming the enforcement program under the existing statute," Main said.

"It would require mine operators to be much more proactive in monitoring their compliance performance and would eliminate two provisions in the existing regulation: The potential POV procedure and the requirement regarding final orders," he added.

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Don Blankenship should be sentenced to work on one of his mines......... all by himself. nt

[wryter2000]

2. Or, he should be sentenced to life in prison

How many people does he get to kill?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. That should be the 2nd phase of his sentence IF he makes it out of the mine first. nt

[SpartanDem]

4. k&r

[Enrique]

5. kick

:kick:

[Hello_Kitty]

6. But all you ever do is smear the President, according to what I read on another thread.

:)