Xtrata: Tahmoor Colliery strike

Sadly, the basic instinct of Xstrata Coal Management is as it always has been. Supress all honest workers. First, they begin by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they will even try to poison you and your families with hate mail sent to your private homes. Fear not for their war chest is full of nothing but educated insolence. First Xstrata will ignore you, then they try to humilate and laugh at you, then they fight you tooth and nail, and then, in time, you will win. I've learned over the years that workers will in time forget much of what Xstrata said to them, workers may even in time forget what Xstrata did to them, but the workers will never forget how Xstrata made them and their families feel during their struggle for nothing more than a fair outcome. It has become appallingly obvious to all of us that Xstrata's corperate strength, technology, and wealth gained by them through the sweat of their own workers has exceeded their tragic lack of all humanity, if they indeed had any at all to begin with.

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