News - Drummond Company Inc.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As announced in the June 15, 2011 Press Release, Drummond Company, Inc.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In two rulings on Monday, a federal district court in Birmingham, Alabama dismissed the latest efforts by Colombian plaintiffs, backed by the United Steelworkers and Colombian labor unions, to hold Drummond Company Inc., Drummond Ltd.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal lawsuit alleges the Drummond Company paid millions of dollars to a Colombian paramilitary terrorist group that while acting as paid "security" was responsible for the deaths of 67 people in a plot to disrupt union activities at the company's South American coal mining and railway operations. The civil lawsuit accuses Drummond of paying the right-wing United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) to protect their business interests in the Cesar and Magdalena provinces of Colombia, and to terrorize and murder innocent residents in the region who they perceived as sympathetic to leftist guerilla groups and supportive of local union organizations.
Drummond Company, Inc. announced that it will host an investor conference call to discuss third quarter 2008 financial results on Friday, November 14, 2008 at 10:00 am Eastern Time.
