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Never trust your employer. They will always look out for the business first, capitalism demands it.
Also, don't do dangerous stuff just cause everyone else in the team/company/industry does it.
And advocate for your boys. Even classified environments can be ignored when lives are in danger. Don't let security risk lives or health for an investigation. That's their problem after everyone is safe.
And never forget. We didn’t get these right because we asked nicely. We killed and died to get them.
This is wild to me, not because the company acted like this, that was to be expected, but what they were arguing over: whether the guy who got his legs chopped off deserved workmans comp.
How is that even a question, even if he made some mistake or ignored some rule, the man got his legs chopped off on the job, he should get workmans comp regardless. Accidents happen no matter how safe you make an industrial environment, rules are often made to be impossible to fully follow, you shouldn't have to prove the company was at fault to be made whole for getting injured on the job.
Dude, they'll nickel and dime freakin toiletpaper.
I had an Uber driver recently who was a former miner. He was caught in a fucking mine fire that ruined his lungs and required physical therapy. He told me the story of all the different ways the company worked extra-hard not only to avoid responsibility, but to seemingly be an impediment to any actual help. I was pissed by the end of the ride and I'd just met the guy. These are the kinds of things, along with my own shitty experiences, that are really warming me up to organized labor in a way I never thought possible.
One of the newest episodes of Last Week Tonight gave a really damning look into just how sketchy and dangerous this industry is.
It's shit like this why I am happy to be a euro-poor.
Yeah, Americans are richer, but they do it in a sleazy way.
This unsafe "efficiency gain" produces some extra profits for some rich dudes, but the working class doesn't benefit and they pay the price in life and health
they just chucked his broken ass off the train, and left him laying beside the tracks
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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