Like everyone else, I'm praying for the families of the Utah miners and the rescue teams whose lives have been taken. And as I think about what they have lost, I'm wondering if we will learn from yet another "disaster" with apparently predictable and preventable causes.
As I write I'm thinking about the mine workers' union members I used to know when I worked in Pennsylvania in the 1970s.
Back then, most of the coal industry was unionized, and bright young...
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