Ask the coal miners if their own bosses pay attention to their concerns.
-2010: 29 miners are killed in an explosion at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine. 
Operators disconnected safety equipment and ignored repeated methane explosions.
"In November 2014 the then CEO, Don Blankenship, was indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts, including conspiracy to violate safety laws, defrauding the federal government, securities fraud and making false statements to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission." 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Big_Branch_Mine_disaster
Coal is the most concentrated carbon emission source.  Maybe you, like a lot of "conservative" folks, consider man-caused global warming to be a hoax, but educated people recognize it as a real phenomenon that needs to be addressed.  Ending coal burning is just one step.

Pittsburgh steel workers lost their jobs.  Akron rubber workers lost their jobs.  New England loom workers lost their jobs.