Months after blaming layoffs on Obama, it looks like Murray Coal is rehiring

From Daily Kos:

Remember Murray Coal CEO Bob Murray? If you remember the Crandall Canyon Mine collapse or the miners forced to lose pay to go to a Romney event or the mine owner who claimed Obama's reelection caused layoffs, then you remember Bob Murray. But surprise! It now looks like Murray wasn't just blaming layoffs he'd have made anyway on Obama—he's actually rehiring some of the laid-off workers.

Alec MacGillis has been on Murray's case all along, and now he reports that workers are being rehired at Red Bird West, and Ohio mine that Murray announced was closing before the election.

More here.

Murry is one big scumbag, alright, virtually a cartoon version of the archetypal evil capitalist.  I'll never forget how after the Crandall Canyon disaster he immediately tore into the labor unions while dismissing some pretty heavy evidence that his own unsafe mining practices and violations of federal safety regulations caused the cave in, and offered instead his own cockamamie theory that "an earthquake" was to blame.  Big fucking asshole.  The dead hadn't even been recovered at that point.

So it is no surprise to see that his political maneuvering, using his own workers as chess pieces, is now revealed for the fraud it has always been.  I mean, it was obvious bullshit when he initially announced the layoffs, but it is now factual bullshit.  This guy really is Monty Burns.  Unfortunately, there's nothing funny about him at all.  Just an asshole fucking people over.  Not even any comedic value.  Pathetic.

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