LastWeekTonight
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24:21 · 20M views · Jun 19, 2017
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on coal examines the industry, its executives and its treatment of miners, and includes the coverage of Robert Murray that led to a lawsuit.
HN refers to it mainly for context on coal executive Robert Murray and the lawsuit that followed the segment.
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If you haven't already seen them, John Oliver's Last Week Tonight episodes on Murray are great watches. this video [LINK]
Historically, coal is an industry filled with -to put it lightly- labor disputes due to exploitative conditions [1][2]. Today, the industry in decline by any definition and as companies try to awl out some sort of profit they cut corners which create unsafe conditions. When accidents happen, the company will skirt responsibility to the very end (someone else has a nice link here [3]). The "Last Week Tonight" on coal from a few years ago (start at 8:39[4]) goes through some rather aggressive coal executives who don't want to fairly compensate workers. Here are a few recent coal disasters you can read about: [5,6] [1]: [LINK] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [LINK] [4]: this video [5]: [LINK] [6]: [LINK]
As an interesting note, the Murray referenced in the article is the same Robert Murray that threatened to (and then did) sue John Oliver after his segment on coal this month [0][1]. [0]: [LINK] [1]: this video