Discussion: Trump’s Labor Department Eviscerates Workplace Safety Panels

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Filed under: “If you want your jobs back, you have to let us treat you like Chinese/Indian labor.”

Subfile: “Fine…if we can’t keep black people as slaves, we’ll just make you ALL our slaves.”

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Next, 10 year olds in the poultry processing and meat cutting industries?

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Don’t forget the coal breakers.

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Clearly, eliminating expert advice is an important part of “draining the swamp”. Kickbacks, backhanders, and pay-to-play, on the other hand, are the mainstay of the Trump administration business model.

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You would think that the Rump would want to keep his voters alive but no. He wants them dead.

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Nothing like working barefoot in a Foundry, and some of those workers don’t look like they’ve even entered puberty. Good Times!:

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It’s good for 'em, it builds character. The little brats need to start learning the value of hard work. They need to learn there are no handouts.

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The other day was the 107th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. The workplace mass casualty event that caused government to create and enforce workplace safety regulations.
You’d figure people would learn though from this administration it’s “we’re bringing industrial accidents back!”

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Unfortunately, it looks like some will have to learn the hard way why there are Government regulations.

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“The boards are tremendously important for the functioning of OSHA."

Exactly.


The SS OSHA fulfilling its new, improved mission statement.

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“Trump’s Labor Department Eviscerates Workplace Safety Panels.”

Well, at least all those coal miners, steel workers, and factory laborers who voted for Trump are safe.

Oh, wait…

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One more step back to the days of the Robber Barons.

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It is so expensive for Massey, Koch, etc to follow those silly, unnecessary safety rules. Toss them.

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I think Naomi Klein nailed it way back last June:

“This narrative has emerged that he’s this bumbling idiot, that it’s all chaos,” she said. “And meanwhile, behind the scenes, getting very little media attention is a methodical, very organized redistribution of wealth from lower and middle incomes to the 1 percent of the 1 percent.”

Just look at what has been accomplished since his being sworn into office.

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Ship Breaking is one of those industries free from the burdens of regulations in India and Bangladesh. It’s a regular workers paradise:

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Some of the members of this USSC will sign up for that tomorrow.

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Safety is for sissies.

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Sure is a good thing we have a congress that’s zealous about making sure the laws it passes are properly enforced.

You can stop laughing any minute now.

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donnie’s tired of his business’s getting sued every time some schmuck gets a sliver …

whoosies GET BACK TO WORK ! —

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