The Kentucky Coal Miners Who Stopped A Train
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2019
- "Black Gold of Harlan County" follows the Blackjewel coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky who stopped a train from leaving a mine in protest of bounced checks and no pay.
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Fighting back against these greedy bastards mine owners is the only way to make a difference to your Health, Wealth and Safety. Keep strong everyone.
I never was around coal or miners until the last year or so. I drive a truck now in coal country. I've met many miners, prep plant workers, and alot of their kin folks. I am proud to have met these folks and have no problem telling other people what fine folks all of them are. God bless the miners and their families.
hello from qld australia.... i was an underground coalminer for 38 years..... well done for standing up to big companies
I loved the video!! Can't wait for the next one.
Thanks a lot! More coming soon!
I'm with these people, I'd do the same thing in their spot, I live in Texas & know nothing about coal mining, but rights right & wrong is wrong, pay these people for their labor. Honest day's work for honest wages. PAY THESE PEOPLE.
So proud to see the video bois succeeding at making amazing content. Very excited for the next one.
Thanks! We'll be releasing more very soon.
Bless you all
Luv light n respect from bloody Harlan Kentucky ... 🌹🍷🌹🍷🌹🍷🌹🍷🌹 my daddy worked up at black star in the 70s...
why channel with such a good editing skills and quality is so underrated?
Nobody Thanks! We’re relatively new so get the word out there! More great stuff coming very soon! 😄
My Bro in-law started a Church in Harlan Ky I go there every Sunday to help him. I remember that strike.
Give the miners their pay. Nobody works for free brother
Now to vote out Moscow Mitch!
The means of production are in the hands of the worker.
There is no production, these guys just want their salaries as willing employees.
Why dont those workers make some coal and sell it then? Oh right, someone has to invest in some last and buy equipment first
Hold strong guys. I knew some old miners from harlen County moved to Ohio in the 70 to work for Peabody never met nicer people
yep. my dad and uncle left Harlan and my uncle went to tn and we went to Lexington. He got a job as a welder at Bakers junk yard in Lex, My mom got a job at markey cancer center as a nurse. We finally started to live a good life.
You have rights too.companies just can't close doors .big shots got there's why can't you pay these people ...it's not money big shot is still eating what about them..this guys keep up the great work ..good bless..
Well time to grab all the expensive equipment and sell it to the companys competitor and go work for them to.
Is that a kerplunk or a 1039 smoothed out slappy hours!!
Is this thing over yet? If not I wonder if any of the miners have thought of selling the coal to the highest bidder. They should probably do it through court, but they need money sooner than that.
Well wishes to them in any case.
7 years later I am here in NEPA and heating my home with hard coal at 220$ per ton while other are spending 4.00$ a gallon on heating oil. Spent 100$ a month heating my house this cold winter. Coal will be king for a long time
Being the person the state over with just as much industrial and factory work this is scary
It only cost 8 million dollars for a mine? That lawyer sounds shifty
Do you realize how much equipment and land goes with that????
@@ffjsb that makes it even worse
@@ronaldmorrison6013 Bottom line, the mine is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. It was a bankruptcy auction. you take what you get.
@@scottbc31h22 how can they afford to pay you guys enough to make meat and bread and all the overhead for a mine only worth 8 million dollars. I don't mean no disrespect by it I just don't understand it
@@ronaldmorrison6013 You keep saying the mine is only "worth $8 million" , but it makes no difference about the price of the equipment, or the value of the land. It has to do with the amount of revenue the mine will produce. And you have to factor in the fact that coal is a dying business (NO arguments about that, please). Therefore there is only a small number of people or companies who are even interested in purchasing the mine (I believe it was 2). Since it was a bankruptcy auction the bidding starts low and the prospective buyers bid until one says "Nope, not worth more than that". In this case, it was $8 million. Who knows, maybe the mine will produce. Maybe the buyer knows how much it is likely to produce. It was bought by another mining firm, I'm sure they know what they are buying.
Alot of them did lose everything. I'm from Harlan. They had to leave Harlan to fi d work.
we sure did, we went to lexington
Descusting working men and women not getting payed what is owed them . Time for revolution time for heads to roll ....French style.
Don't piss off a coal miner
Look at that Cudzoo on that train track.
Hard working men need to get paid!
They say in Harlan county there are no neutrals there
So six minutes and 3000 views that’s all these boys are worth
That fucking pisses me off!!!
i want my back pay and my job back. ive done sales for almost 1000 contractors and businesses last 15 years that didnt pay me in full and let me go or i had to quit cause on pay day first week they call and say car trouble or dog ran away or relative in hospital or died or kid sick and though their wife dont work they have to stay home too with sick kid and next day another excuse and next another. had to go to court or get cops involved 35 times combined. several i went to customer and said i wasnt getting paid and customer deducted my pay from what was owed to the contractor.
Profits over People everytime. I love America, but hate multi-international corporations almost as much as I hate Government.
My name is Plub Nulliurn,. Me & J. Hirum Churibnie went up there & kicked the train off the track, strangled the crew & set fire to all the coal,,,, mr. Big coal ended up getting a cigarette put out in his eye 🤬
Good job miners
We know you as family..The Hunters, Carters, Hubards, Harrirsons Tuckers ..Canada Iron Miners.
Don't want to sound mean, but isn't coal a thing of the past?
Not at all. You still gots to get your gas for your cars and all electricity. You gots solar, wind and hydrothermal energy but there is no way that those can power all we have today.
Marshall Barkema Not really. There is still a market for it but we just don’t use as much as we used to..
Unfortunately, natural gas is just as dirty and twice as dangerous as coal. The company I work for was a big coal mine and there was a waste handling division as well. All surface mining. When we would finish a pit of coal the washings from the previous pit hauled out and dumbed back on the hole and the next block uncovered. The fly ash from after it's burnt is a huge commodity in cosmetics and cleaners. And once we moved off a property you can do whatever you liked with it. The waste was back in the hole it come from, tons of folks had jobs. Well natural gas pretty well ended our mining division and we started to take in the "drill cuttings" black or grey sludge that is considered toxic waste, and is incredibly caustic and dangerous if not contained properly. We had a driver dumping sludge the one day and got some on his leg and by the time he was unloaded and washed out he had to park the truck and get medical attention. He pulled his pantleg up and the skin was rolling down his leg into his boot. Birds land in it and die. They won't even fly over the area we have designated for drillcuttings. And they tell us it's perfectly safe and harmless yet when the people come out to inspect our facility they wear suits and have gauges and all sorts of monitoring equipment on. I keep asking if its so harmless and safe why aren't we dumping it on fields and letting it dry and using it for dirt and why are they wearing all those suits and equipment for? We're just told to not worry about it. One of the driver's said when that shit comes out of the ground it has to sit in a yard in these tanks and is checked for dangerous levels of radioactivity and other dangerous chemicals. And out landfill is filling up with this crap! By the ton! We have to have crews 365 days a year 24 hours a day. Holidays weekends nonestop! This isn't green! We have to build two landfill cells a year to just keep up
BAHAHAAA
@@dustywelchcraneman6614 Totally wrong.
They voted for a billionaire conman, duh!
Tubeslats you are sadly making a fool of yourself and your ignorance. For one thing President Trump has nothing to do with a company being mismanaged and going bankrupt nor does he have anything to do with the workers not getting paid their wages. However it is because of his administrations policies that the demand for coal is rising again and companies are in a financial position to buy the mine. The issue that is holding up the sale is the improper methods that were used in the mining of the coal by the previous mine owners which need to be cleaned up and remedied before the sale is allowed to go through. Just imagine how many of these workers would be permanently unemployed if CROOKED BILLARY had gotten elected? I dare say 10s of thousands.
@Michael Trenton They were paid in October
@@MP14236133...Trump is a complete asshole that works for the coal company owners.... NOT YOU! Don't be stupid....
Why you gotta insult conmen like that
I'll bet these miners aren't going to get fooled a second time with Trump...! If they had healthcare insurance, They sure won't have it now. Hmmmm... I wonder....Who can remedy things like this? Go Bernie...!
Should of Voted for Hillary Clinton
obama and the dems are attempting to ruin the coal mining industry... it is a fact... do your homework and pay attention... bernie is a socialist tree huger and would continue obumers policies...
Wasn't that long ago we were shooting communists. Apparently, a few got away.