Its been a bad couple of weeks for the coal industry in Scotland – both of its big opencast producers, also the two biggest producers in the UK, are in severe financial difficulty. Once again though, its blue-collar workers who will bear the brunt of these companies troubles. ATH look set to make 300 redundancies, and Scottish Coal up to 200 again – that’s more than 40% of Scotland’s opencast workforce.
See http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?p=3144#more-3144.