Kentucky Coal Miners End Blockade After More Than 8 Weeks, Still Owed Earned Wages

Kentucky coal miners demanding weeks in back pay have ended a high-profile railroad blockade despite still being owed their earned wages.

The demonstration, which lasted eight weeks and three days, concluded on Thursday as the number of participants had significantly dwindled. According to one reporter at the protest site, many of the unpaid miners left “to take new jobs, start classes, or move away from their coal-dependent communities.”