International Communications Broadcast Systems – By Constance Clarendon - Charleston, WV -  No one likes the holidays, except obsessive compulsives and their grandparents. Here, in West Virginia, a largely reluctant group of miners remain on duty packaging individual lumps of coal for over-deserving recipients. Unheralded, and seldom acknowledged, teams of miners here continue to prepare the disappointing “Stocking stuffers.” Any and all courts of appeal are closed for the holidays. A veteran mine supervisor joked, “We’re happy to do this now in hope that these folks won’t continue to do what they did all this last year.” United Mine Workers officials were unavailable for comment.

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wv.gov: http://www.wv.gov

umwa.org - http://www.umwa.org

Workplace safety? Interesting question…