Warrior Met Coal Calls for End to Violence on Picket Line
25 October 2021 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Warrior Met Coal, Inc. respects the right of represented
employees to engage in lawful strike activities and has provided
the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) picketers with reasonable
spaces to picket at our entrances since the strike began on April
1, 2021. However, while the UMWA has portrayed their actions as
“peaceful protests,” in recent weeks striking workers have
escalated the amount and severity of criminal behavior. Warrior Met
Coal is condemning the recent increase in vandalism and violence by
UMWA leadership and members as the strike continues.
In addition to interfering with the entrance and exit to our
facilities, picketers have increased attacks on personal vehicles,
property, and uninvolved community members near the Company’s
property. The UMWA picketers are engaging in behavior that is
clearly in violation of both Alabama’s workers’ rights and the
injunction granted by the Judge in Tuscaloosa County.
While unacceptable behavior by the picketers has been occurring
since the strike began, actions both on the picket line and in the
community have reached a dangerous level over the last week. For
example, employees have been attacked in their vehicles, physically
intimidated, and assaulted, and had personal vehicles and homes
vandalized. The Company’s transport buses are being escorted by
law-enforcement vehicles and yet continue to be threatened and
attacked by UMWA picketers. Video: UMWA
Picketer Violence
Picketers, who often seek to conceal their personal identity by
wearing masks, have also expanded violence and disruption beyond
the Company property and into the surrounding community,
endangering those families, and our neighbors. Our employees’ homes
and vehicles have been shot at from passing cars, and jack rocks
and spike strips have been placed on area roads to damage their
vehicle tires.
Misleading and erroneous statements made by UMWA leadership and
members and repeated on social media are inflaming the situation.
Criminal activity and intimidation by the UMWA must stop before
someone gets seriously injured. Warrior Met Coal calls for the UMWA
to change its practices, strongly denounce this behavior and take
action to stop this violent, unlawful conduct in order to maintain
public safety.
About Warrior
Warrior is a U.S.-based, environmentally and socially minded
supplier to the global steel industry. It is dedicated entirely to
mining non-thermal met coal used as a critical component of steel
production by metal manufacturers in Europe, South America and
Asia. Warrior is a large-scale, low-cost producer and exporter of
premium met coal, also known as hard-coking coal (HCC), operating
highly efficient longwall operations in its underground mines based
in Alabama. The HCC that Warrior produces from the Blue Creek coal
seam contains very low sulfur, has strong coking properties and is
of a similar quality to coal referred to as the premium HCC
produced in Australia. The premium nature of Warrior’s HCC makes it
ideally suited as a base feed coal for steel makers and results in
price realizations near the Platts Index price. For more
information, please visit www.warriormetcoal.com.
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