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More miners are crying foul over $1.4 million per quarter in bonuses proposed to Westmoreland Coal Company mid-level managers, all while union pensions and benefits are in doubt.

The International Union of Operators and Engineers objected to the Westmoreland’s “valued employee program,” in which the coal company’s mid-level employees received retention bonuses to stay with the company through bankruptcy.

The objection, filed Monday in a U.S. bankruptcy court in Texas, faults Westmoreland for offering bonuses while trying to reduce the benefits and protections previously promised to miners. The company offered no proof that the bonuses help Westmoreland post-bankruptcy, union attorneys argued.

The same day, Westmoreland revealed that it would not be covering the pensions of miners in several states, including Montana and Wyoming.

Westmoreland “makes no effort to explain how spending an additional $1.4 million per quarter on select management employees will make it more certain that it will emerge from the proceedings as a going concern,” wrote Stephen Curtice, attorney for miners of IUOE, Local 953 in New Mexico.