peabody protest jobs with justice

CBTU co-sponsors Mineworkers Rally Against Peabody Tuesday, January 29, 10am Peabody Energy created Patriot Corporation in 2007, shedding health benefits it promised to thousands of coal miners who gave a lifetime of hard work. This allowed Peabody to wash its hands of its obligations, and now Patriot is using bankruptcy to wipe out the retirees' health care benefits. That means thousands of current and retired miners will be left to cope with black lung, cancer and crippling injuries on their own. Coalition of Black Trade Unionists - St. Louis has co-sponsored the United Mine Workers' Rally this Tuesday. Patriot Coal's bankruptcy hearings start this week, and hundreds of miners are coming in town to demand Peabody be held accountable for the retiree health benefits they promised. Join them tomorrow, Tuesday January 29, at 10am in downtown St. Louis at the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse, 111 South 10th Street, St. Louis, MO 63102. For more information, or to RSVP, contact St. Louis Organizer Aaron Burnett at Aaron@stl-jwj.org. ------- steelworkers meeting at kiener plaza at 9 am