[RunItUpTheGut]

MSHA's District office in Pikeville will be phased out within 15 months. Norton Va. and Barbourville Ky. offices will assume Pikeville's responsibilities. I also heard that MSHA's field offices at Martin, Phelps and Elkhorn will be closed.

I once ask an inspector what would happen when they shut down the coal industry, he said they were told they would not lose their job, they may be transferred to another location or another department, but they would have a job.

And they believed the liberals in charge weren't lying to them? nicker:

Just like everybody else, they will feel the screwing of the government as well. They were used as henchmen for a pay check and now its time to roost. This is great news for area mines. I also heard bville was laying off something like 12 or 15, or may have heard it wrong.
I find it hard to believe that after shutting down Pikeville, and cutting slack at the other two, that's its even possible to get to half the jobs.