1,100 Alabama coal miners enter second month of strike 

Birmingham, June 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Alabama, 1,100 coal miners have entered the second month of their strike against the Warrior Met Coal company. Six years ago, the miners accepted a huge pay cut in order to help their company emerge from bankruptcy. 

Now they say Warrior Met is failing to repay them as it rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.  The workers went on strike April 1st after rejecting a contract proposal they say offered too little in wages and benefits. 

Last month, 11 of the striking miners were arrested as they blocked strikebreakers from entering their worksite.  The United Mine Workers says there have been three separate cases of vehicular assault on picketing workers by persons working for Warrior Met Coal in recent days.