http://wkyufm.org en http://wkyufm.org/post/western-kentucky-miners-join-protest-coal-companys-bankruptcy <p>Union-backed coal miners in Kentucky and surrounding states are protesting a coal company’s bankruptcy proceedings they say jeopardizes pension and health care benefits for some 20-thousand retirees and dependents. Miners were picketing Wednesday outside Peabody Energy’s headquarters in St. Louis.</p><p>Two charter buses bound for St. Louis left early Wednesday morning from western Kentucky to join the protest led by the United Mine Workers of Amercia.</p><p>Peabody Energy is one of the nation’s largest coal companies and one of the companies the union accuses of orchestrating business deals that bankrupted Patriot Coal. Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:23:19 +0000 Lisa Autry and Associated Press 26427 at http://wkyufm.org