“‘Let’s call this what it is: legalized looting — looting that makes a handful of Wall Street managers very rich while costing thousands of people their jobs, putting valuable companies out of business, and hurting communities across the country,‘ Warren wrote in a blog post detailing her plan.”
These miners were let go without warning, and money pulled back out of their accounts. Holding possession of the coal they mined is their only leverage to get some pay.
Bankruptcy law has twisted so hard in favor of companies, workers get nothing.