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Miners Forced To Attend Romney Rally, Don't Get Paid For The

submitted by Lendl

1 decade 2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

Even worse than I thought.

YouTube Description:

"Earlier this month, Mitt Romney was welcomed for a campaign event at the Century Mine in Beallsville, Ohio, by hundreds of coal workers and their families. Now many of the mine's workers are saying they were forced to give up a day's worth of pay to attend the event, and they feared they might be fired if they didn't, according to local news radio WWVA.The claims have been mostly denied by Rob Moore, Chief Financial Officer of Murray Energy Company, which owns the mine. He acknowledges that workers weren't paid that day but says no one was made to attend the event. Well, kind of...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.*Read more here from Harry Bradford in The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/century-mine-romney-ohio-mandatory_n...

11 Comments

would such a thing be illegal?

This deserves a big "wtf."

dystopianfuturetoday

Free Market politics at work.

Wow... that's truly despicable

think of the optics of having the working class coming out for one of the biggest plutocrats ever to run for office? Can you say astro-turf?

Say what you will about the Koch-Industry-branded Tea Party -- they certainly know what's effective in politicks [sic].

Some more about this boss guy here:

http://videosift.com/video/Miners-attendance-at-Rmoney-rally-mandatory-and-unpaid

*controversy and loads of it!

Adding video to channels (Controversy) - requested by Auger8.

>> ^VoodooV:

would such a thing be illegal?

Indeed it us under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.

Corporate/labor officials or employees may direct
subordinates to plan, organize or carry out fundraising
as part of their work, using corporate/labor
organization resources, only if the corporation or
labor organization receives advance payment for the
fair market value of the services, including compensation,
benefits and overhead. However, using
coercion to urge anyone to engage in fundraising
on behalf of, or make a contribution to, a candidate or
political committee is prohibited. 114.2(f)(2)(i)(A) and
(iv). See also AO 1998-16.

http://www.fec.gov/pdf/colagui.pdf

Lets hope legal consequences are forthcoming since they were caught red handed.

I'm guessing that, at most, the company ends up having to pay the workers for their time and a small fine for the infraction.

No one voting for Romney would be watching TYT anyway.

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