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Michchamp
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Bloomberg businessweek just published an article on how bad workplace safety conditions are for auto-parts makers that sprang up in the south alongside the BMW, Toyota, etc. plants that moved there. link.
No surprise (to me at least) that the number of serious injuries, lost limbs, and workplace deaths are significantly higher than at unionized plants in the north. the stories they feature are pretty damn tragic. puts a human face on the mindless discussions about workplace safety and claims unions no longer have any purpose because OSHA exists. true, OSHA did pressure southern plants starting more recently, but I have a hard time seeing that pressure continue in any meaningful way once Trump is able to fit selecting some OSHA appointees into his golf schedule at mar-a-lago
but at least they have jobs, right? and it's not like they were going to live forever anyways. and not all Americans deserve to have two functioning arms and legs for that matter. No such thing as a free lunch. fuck unions!
(insert typical story you hear from every Conservatard in Michigan about an uncle who knows some union guy at the Ford plant who gets high at work, sleeps on the job, makes $200,000 dollars a year, and is an Islamofascist Communist, Nazi sympathizer who beats his kids, but can't be fired because he was lucky enough to be the most senior guy in the plant, and therefore unions = bad... end of discussion)
No surprise (to me at least) that the number of serious injuries, lost limbs, and workplace deaths are significantly higher than at unionized plants in the north. the stories they feature are pretty damn tragic. puts a human face on the mindless discussions about workplace safety and claims unions no longer have any purpose because OSHA exists. true, OSHA did pressure southern plants starting more recently, but I have a hard time seeing that pressure continue in any meaningful way once Trump is able to fit selecting some OSHA appointees into his golf schedule at mar-a-lago
but at least they have jobs, right? and it's not like they were going to live forever anyways. and not all Americans deserve to have two functioning arms and legs for that matter. No such thing as a free lunch. fuck unions!
(insert typical story you hear from every Conservatard in Michigan about an uncle who knows some union guy at the Ford plant who gets high at work, sleeps on the job, makes $200,000 dollars a year, and is an Islamofascist Communist, Nazi sympathizer who beats his kids, but can't be fired because he was lucky enough to be the most senior guy in the plant, and therefore unions = bad... end of discussion)
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