On 7/23/10 5:21 PM, bpuharic wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:38:36 -0400, wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:27:19 -0400, wrote:
doesnt do much for the right wing bull**** that american workers earn
the fruits of their labors
OSHA is far from a slap on the wrist.
really? what was the fine for the workers BP killed in houston? what
was the fine for the mine workers killed in WVA?
What would a union do?
unions were the driving force behind most worker protection
legislation of today. that includes vacations and weekends. if you
ever had a vacation or a weekend
thank the unions
The Bush Administration almost totally destroyed OSHA in terms of its
ability to go after employers in order to protect workers. Many modern
European nations provide far more protection for their workers.
Another failure is workers' comp. Employers hide behind it, knowing the
amount of money they'll have to pay out in case fo worker injury is not
substantial. It's not easy to pursue tort cases against employers when
workers' comp is involved.
Employers consider their employees just another cheap commodity when it
comes to their safety.
From Reuters, today:
Key rig alarm disabled before blast -rig worker
Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:07pm EDT
* Alarm could have alerted crew to dangerous gas buildup
* Some key rig witnesses decline to appear before panel
By Chris Baltimore and Alyson Zepeda
HOUSTON, July 23 (Reuters) - An emergency alarm that could have warned
workers aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico drilling rig
was intentionally disabled, a rig engineer told U.S. investigators on
Friday.
Mike Williams, chief engineer technician aboard Swiss-based Transocean
Ltd's RIGN.S (RIG.N) rig, said the general alarm that could have
detected the cloud of flammable methane gas that enveloped the rig's
deck on April 20 was "inhibited."
"They (rig managers) did not want people woke up at three o'clock in the
morning from false alarms," Williams told a six-member federal board in
the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, Louisiana.