Pictured; KDCD President Kent Utt
The Knox County Development Corp. is partnering with Sunrise Coal and the local WorkOne office to help displaced coal miners find new jobs.
KCDC president Kent Utt tells the Vincennes Sun Commercial WorkOne is hosting three, hour-long orientation sessions Aug. 12 at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. as well as a mini-job fair from 12:20-2 p.m., all in an effort to help the some 175 miners who recently lost their jobs at Sunrise Coal’s Oaktown mine is the company’s most-recent round of layoffs.
Utt is extending invitations to local businesses in search of workers. Already, he said, Perk-A-Lawn has confirmed a booth as has Futaba Indiana of America.
The events will be at at WorkOne’s offices, which are located in Vincennes University’s Indiana Center for Applied Technology building at 1500 M. Chestnut St.
Sunrise Coal announced Monday that it would lay off more workers — 30 were laid off in June. A majority of the latest layoffs, 103, were said to be coming from the mine in Oaktown, even though production there will actually increase.