Miners Receive WARN Notices

More than 500 miners will be out of a job soon. Workers at Marfork Coal Company and Maxxim Shared Services received a WARN notice Monday. WCHS TV reports, according to a letter sent by Alpha Natural Resources, the subsidiaries will idle “five entire mines and entire processing facility.” The company anticipates 468 Marfork and 40 Maxxim workers will lose their jobs on March 25 or within two weeks afterward. The layoffs are expected to be permanent.