Sam Hall, a gay coal miner in West Virginia, is suing his former employer Spartan Mining Co. (a Massey Energy Co. subsidiary) for tolerating the anti-gay harassment of his co-workers and failing to protect him from torment on the job. Also named in the lawsuit is foreman Randy Thomas, who’s accused of participating in the alleged discrimination, which included verbal harassment, attaching a “I like little boys” sign to his car, slurs written on his work locker, and, ahem, lewd gestures including coworkers waving their penises at Hall in the mines, BECAUSE WE’RE IN FOURTH GRADE. Hall (not pictured) reported the harassment, which endured for years, and included threats like, “I would like to see all [expletive] die.” Responds Massey general counsel Shane Harvey: “They are serious allegations, and we take them seriously. We are going to investigate it, and if any of them are true, we are going to take action swiftly to remedy the situation. However, at this stage, they are just allegations, and we are going into the investigation with an open mind.” And why don’t we preemptively throw in a health care settlement too?
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I believe the guy… Its weird what str8 guys do thinking that they are picking on gay guys… Waving your dick at gays??? Had something a little similar happen to me… The young guys across the street (thug types) use to rub on their nipples and grab there dicks when I was working in the yard and laugh. When they did it to my partner I had to but a end to it, and went and had a little talk with them.
Ernest
The type of str8 guys that do that, do it because they think all we care about is sex. So them ripping out their dicks and rubbing themselves, makes them think we’ll go after them and get one hell of a gangbang out of it. Sorry guys, just like the women we think your pretty fucking ugly too!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Am fairly certain there needs to be sexual orientation included in the states discrimination statues and I really can not see such an inclusion in West Virginia………
And the fact that there is a real live Gay coal miner truly proves that we truly are everywhere!!
jacknasty
sadly it sounds sort of typical of that kind of culture. Remember the Charlize Theron movie North Country that was about sexual harassment of a female miner and how long that case took to get any sort of resoltuion.
Mountainword
As a West Virginian, I (sadly) expect this of coal-mining culture. Massey is a big evil coal company, which preys upon the lowest common denominators of humanity – the ignorant and the stupid. It places its money behind conservative Republican interests and those who support big businesses, and fuck everyone else. MASSEY has brought nothing to the world except for the damnation of mountaintop removal mining, acid mine drainage pollution, and coal mining disasters. Death, misery, and destruction are the goals of this company.
I wish Mr. Hall all the luck in the world, and if I knew how to help you I would. Family must stick together – not just gays, but Appalachians as well. History has told us that our politicians will rarely support either group’s interest, so we must do it for ourselves. God speed, Mr. Hall –
from another west virginian
second what mountainword said.
massey is evil i will tell you now NOTHING will happen
the miners will deny it/back each other up, massey will say- sorry no evidence
and west virginia has no protections for sexuality
David
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: Regardless of orientation, this is a case of sexual harassment, which is prohibited in every state.
ewe
These are the same type of straight guys who always have lots of gay sex. Their everywhere.
know your facts
I know for a Fact that some of what sam is saying is nothing but bold faced lies he denied even being Gay. Your either Gay or your not, and he has called the guys there c**k suckers too he isnt innocent they are two sides to every story. The Men found out he was Gay because he has a Face Book page and says he is married to a man thats how it was known that he is gay
ewe
@know your facts: Hey Bozo, have you heard? Being gay is a non issue.
ewe
@know your facts: So if he denied being straight and people saw his facebook saying he was straight then employees could go around calling a cuntlicker? NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
Freddy the Snowman
Coal Miners are stupid. They bitch, and moan all of the time. They always say that the world can not turn w/o them. I hope that they all get crushed. I hate them all. I’m tired of seeing things named “King Coal” this and “Miner” that. I am tired of all of these Coal Miners racing up and down the road doing 100 m.p.h. to get to work. There are kids out in the evenings; I guess it will be okay when one of them gets killed, because “Ayyy, I hadda go mine dat Coal!” No, it won’t be okay. I’ll be pulling your worthless self out of your vehicle and forcing your face down into the creek and drowning your worthless, scum-coal mining body.’ You are all worthless. I love hearing about mining fatalities. It gives me a chub.