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Tower Of Strength
Tower Of Strength
    Tyronne O'Sullivan is the
    chairman of Tower
    Colliery, Hirwaun,
    South Wales. He led the
    team of miners that
    fought to but the pit
    from British Coal in
    1995. He and 238 miners
    each paid 8, 000 from
    their own redundancy
    settlement to become
    shareholders. The
    additional funds needed
    were borrowed from
    various banks. This was,
    and still is, a unique
    achievement - no other
    mine, in the history of
    British Coal, has been
    bought by the workforce.
    For over 20 years Tyronne
    was the National Union of
    mineworkers branch
    secretary, leading a
    radical group of men in
    what had to be a militant
    colliery. Tyrone was
    effectively fighting
    British Coal for wages
    and conditions all his
    working life but it was
    in the latter years that
    the fight became about
    the very survival of the
    pit. Tower is now the
    last surviving deep mine
    in Wales and is a
    profitable going concern.
    British coal, to wards
    the end of its regime,
    ear marked Tower as a pit
    with no future and were
    determined to close it
    down. This would have
    resulted in not only the
    loss of a Colliery and
    the resultant
    unemployment but also in
    the devastation of the
    local community. The
    Tower miners refused to
    lie down and they fought
    like no other group of
    miners in the land. The
    miners had faith in
    Tyrone and his buy-out
    team.
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