The Price of Globalization

Michael Hoover hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us
Mon Feb 14 21:37:51 PST 2000



> 2) Who is enforcing the reporting of accidents and work related sickness in
> non-union manufacturing? Sure, if someone in a non-union workplace blows the
> whistle loud enough to OSHA---Maybe!
> Tom
>
> > >OSHA was created in 1973. Maybe it si doing some good/ --jks
> >
> > >From _The Progressive_, February 2000:
> > Losing Life and Limb on the Job
> > BY CHRISTOPHER D. COOK * At one wheel factory in Virginia, workers are
> > losing their fingers. OSHA is not up to its task in this plant--or in
> > thousands of others around the country.
> > John Gulick

FWIW: Congress created OSHA in 1970, agency likes to take credit for reductions in lead poisoning, brown lung disease, and aggregate deaths on job, but work-related illnesses and deaths have actually increased in some industries during last 3 decades... Michael Hoover



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