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US Mine Union Plans Stoppage at NRA TV Crew's 'Bash Obama' Tactics
22 September 2008
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, West Virginia — Union leaders say a National Rifle Association film crew tried to coerce West Virginia miners into bad-mouthing presidential hopeful Barack Obama on camera, and that the union plans a brief work stoppage in protest.
The United Mine Workers will call for the stoppage at Consol's Blacksville No. 2 mine next week, union President Cecil Roberts said Monday at a news conference with representatives of Obama's West Virginia campaign in... (GunPolicy.org)