{"id":721955,"date":"2010-04-22T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83035"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:11:54","slug":"massey-denies-it-prevented-miners-from-attending-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/721955","title":{"rendered":"Massey Denies It Prevented Miners From Attending Funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charleston, W.Va. &#8212; In my <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82941\/in-coal-county-a-culture-of-fear\">piece today<\/a>, I quoted the wife of a worker at a Massey Energy coal mine who said the company denied her husband&#8217;s request to take time off to attend the funerals of friends who died in the April 5 explosion at Massey&#8217;s Upper Big Branch Mine.<\/p>\n<p>I put in a call to Massey to ask if it was the company&#8217;s policy not to grant time off to attend funerals. Just now, I got a call back from Massey spokesman Troy Andes, who said, &#8220;We know of no instances when miners were denied a  request to attend a funeral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth mentioning, though, that even if Massey has no policy along these lines, most of the mines are run by Massey subsidiaries that may have their own policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charleston, W.Va. &#8212; In my piece today, I quoted the wife of a worker at a Massey Energy coal mine who said the company denied her husband&#8217;s request to take time off to attend the funerals of friends who died in the April 5 explosion at Massey&#8217;s Upper Big Branch Mine. I put in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31Or","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}