Alliance in the Community
Alliance believes that being active in the community is imperative to being a great company. Below are just some of the examples of the ways in which Alliance helps out local and international communities.
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Alliance has created and actively fosters close ties with the colleges and universities in the areas near our operations. We maintain long-standing relationships with many of the top Mining Engineering programs in the nation and are very proud of our internship program. Alliance recently provided funding for a new Mining Engineering Lab at the University of Kentucky. In addition, Alliance has committed to the establishment of the Alliance Coal Chair in Mining Engineering at the University of Kentucky, pledging $1.2 million dollars to assist the University in attracting, hiring, and retaining the best and brightest mining engineering professors. The position is expected to be filled in time for the 2010 Fall semester.
We are also proud of our association with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). Alliance and the KCTCS work together to train new and current employees. New employees are trained extensively so that they may enter the workplace capable of performing their job duties more safely and efficiently than typical novice miners. Current employees are eligible and encouraged to attend classes that will help them perform their jobs with an even higher level of confidence and skill.
Alliance coal has been put under the microscope lately with a few unfortunate accidents. The news reports about all of those things. You don't hear much about how many good jobs the mines bring the community or how much money they give back to better our schools and infrastructure as a whole. I wish we heard about the positive things more often.
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ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is that I am from generations of men who mined coal. I watched my grandfather, 2 uncles, a cousin and my wife's ex-boyfriend give their lives for the mines. Black lung, cancer and accidents are parts of the mines that aren't discussed as often as they should be. Sure we hear about accidents but what about the miners who die from black lung every day when the mines tried to elimnate black lung insurance a few years back. For every positive thing they do, the negative erupts tenfold. And in many cases (sorry Erin), the mines use the positive to shut the community up about the negatives.
ReplyDeleteSorry Erin but I misspelled a word - shock!!