Nearly 300 workers at a mine operated by Tulsa-based Alliance Resource Partners L.P. are being layed off in Kentucky.
In a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification or WARN Act filing made Friday, Alliance said it had sent notices to all of its approximately 280 employees of the MC Mining Complex in Kentucky’s Pike County. The mine is operated by Alliance’s subsidiary, Excel Mining LLC.
“The decision to issue WARN notices at the MC Mining Complex was not made lightly,” said Joseph W. Craft, III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer…