RED EYE ON THE NEWS ... September 7, 2022

Miners in Alabama ordered to pay for bosses’ expenses
UMWA, 8/3–“This is a slap in the face not just to the workers who are fighting for better jobs at Warrior Met Coal, but to every worker who stands up to their boss anywhere in America,” UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts said. “There are charges for security, cameras, capital expenditures, buses for transporting scabs across picket lines, and the cost of lost production.

The union entered into a settlement agreement in June with NLRB Region 10 regarding charges the company had made about picket line activity...On July 22, the NLRB sent the union a detailed list of damages totaling $13.3 million dollars, more than 33 times the estimated amount NLRB lawyers had initially indicated would be assessed.
Warrior Met has reported millions of dollars in costs it has incurred over the course of the strike. “It appears that Warrior Met wants us to reimburse it for those costs, including costs it incurred before the strike even began,” Roberts said. “What’s extremely troubling here is that the NLRB appears to have taken up the company’s cause without a second thought.

Justice non-existent in assassination of Moise
World Politics Review, 8/11–This weekend will mark the first anniversary of the Aug. 14 earthquake in Haiti, which came just five weeks after the assassination of former President Jovenel Moise... Moise was killed on July 7 last year, when a gang of assassins went into his heavily secured house in an upscale neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. The killers somehow managed to get through the scores of security personnel meant to be protecting a president who knew he had many enemies. Not one of the officers meant to be guarding Moise was hurt.

Haitian authorities have arrested scores of people, including 18 former Colombian soldiers, who are believed to have acted as mercenaries, carrying out the assassination on behalf of a paymaster. They have not gone on trial.
Among the main suspects is Ariel Henry, currently both Haiti’s acting president and acting prime minister, but investigating a sitting prime minister under the current conditions is proving, shall we say, challenging. When officials have tried to question Henry, he has simply fired them. Other judges, prosecutors and witnesses have reportedly been threatened. Many, including the first judge investigating the case, have withdrawn from the investigation or gone into hiding. Another person of interest is Dimitri Herard, the current head of presidential security, who reportedly traveled to Colombia before the killing.

Anti-Muslim rapists and murderers released in India
BBC, 8/11–Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and saw 14 members of her family being murdered by a Hindu mob during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat, is back in the headlines.
On Monday, 11 convicts who were serving life sentences for rape and murder in the case, walked out of prison to a heroes' welcome. In a late-night statement on Wednesday, Bilkis Bano called the decision to free the men "unjust" and said it had "shaken" her faith in justice.

"When I heard that the convicts who had devastated my family and life had walked free, I was bereft of words. I am still numb," she said…Many have also pointed out that the release is in contravention of guidelines issued by both the federal government and the Gujarat state government - both say that rape and murder convicts cannot be granted remission. Life terms in these crimes are usually served until death in India.