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As the disaster at Utah’s Crandall Canyon Mine reminds us, thousands of workers are killed on the job each year, and millions more are injured or made sick. What should the next president do to improve workplace safety and health? |
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The next president of the United States must be willing to appoint fair minded people to the Dept. Of Labor, the NLRB, OSHA, and MSHA.
For far too long these agencies have been dominated by corporate puppets whose only concern was to protect the interests of the bosses, not the rights/safety of workers!
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I want a President that thinks more about Working Americans than CORPORATE PROFITS. This would bring about more safety rules for the mine workers and others.
How about giving us the same retirement and medical beneifts that Congress and the Sentate get, and oh, how abou the same work schedule. Wouldn’t that just be great!!
In 1962 then President John F. Kennedy went on national television to denounce the rate increase by the large steel makers, United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel - et, al.
His purpose (aside from showing whos side he was on) was to keep prices in the US from rising out of control, keeping inflation at a tolerable rate.
For that and other reasons connected to the ruling corporations he was assinated.
The way I see it, either your willing to stand up to the corporations and fight for working people or just continue ploding along waiting for the next disaster.
Enact strong work safety legislation.
Send Bush and Chenney, et, al to prison where they belong for their crimes… follow China’s example (except for capital punishment)
Tax the rich!
Build America!
Mr. Bush is in Kansas City explaining to the VFW how Iraq is worh it. His complete disregard for the deaths in Iraq and the deaths here in the US due to his efforts to undue workplace safety standards is appalling. The plight of these miners is just another indication of the failure of this administration to address the needs of this country. We need a candidate who actually cares for those whom they purport to represent.
We need a President that would stop gutting OSHA, MSHA and the other regulatory agencies. He needs to put a stop to companies being able to negotiate fines for violations and he needs to ensure that violation fines are strict enough so that the company takes notice. We need a President that will work to ensure that every American has adequate health care and that occupational illnesses and injuries are treated in the proper manner. We need a President that will ensure the rights of workers to unionize by signing the EFCA. In short, we need a complete sea change from the policies of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (I dont even want to say his name.) That being said, we as workers and union members need to VOTE!!!
The Next President should sign the Employee Free Choice Act into Law. The Next President should strengthen the OSHA and other agencies that regulate and govern worker safety regulations.
Bush has by actions and appointments shown a total lack of support for the Middle Class and Working People of America - send a message to the blood soaked greedy Republican Party - this election: (R) MEANS REMOVE!!!
The days when mine owners’ political funds bought corporate lackys overseeing worker safety were suposed to be history - Bush has shown America in Worker Values, Enviromental Concerns and War, history has no meaning . . .
REMOVE!!!!
American workers are consistently getting the short end of the stick. Corporate CEO’s are taking a bigger piece of the pie, while the health, safety, and welfare of employees dwindle—with lax enforcement by our own elected officials.
If there were an international standard for occupational health and safety, American workers wouldn’t get shortchanged—or threatened with the loss of jobs. By requiring the same stringent health and safety standards in every industrial country, all workers would get adequate protections, and those communities where the operations take place could enjoy the same environmental standards as we do.
It’s not enough to establish trade policies. If American companies can transport entire factories to China, but the Chinese can operate them without the same environmental and safety standards—and the Chinese citizens have to endure toxic air and water, deplorable working conditions, and other problems—why do we accept those human rights abuses by importing those goods and spending our money to buy them?
International corporate greed is threatening the health and safety of American workers because the playing field is not level; we should not give up any of the gains we made under the guise of competition—we should force the international community to raise the standards for their citizens if they want us to buy their stuff.
Whoever serves as our next president needs to understand this.
Something drastic must be done to protect these coal miners. After so many deaths, it is obvious that this has not been enough to sway the Bush Administration, who has made MSHA a political department, rather than headed up by experts in coal mining. Criminal charges should be brought against all of the owners who have done away with the little bit of job safety afforded coal miners. When I was growing up in a coal mining family in West Virginia, all of my family and neighbors were members of United Mine Workers. We need to do everything we can to assist UMWA in getting back into these coal mines so that we do not have even more stories such as Sago and the Utah tragedy. We must start by working hard to see that we elect a President who supports job site safety for all workers. Until this is done, we will have even more deaths to report on Workers’ Memorial Day.
Ideally the next president would ignore lobbyists and special interest groups and do what’s right for workers. Unfortunately we all know this will never happen. Our government is no longer ‘of the people, for the people and by the people’. Our government has sunk to the ‘he who has the most money wins’ level. The average American cannot compete with corporate America. And corporate America only cares about profits. The CEO of Mattel has proven that by going on TV claiming his company is doing ‘everything it can’ to protect our children from the unsafe toys being imported from China. Excuse me but if Mattel were truly doing ‘everything it can’ to protect our children from these unsafe toys they’d be bringing the manufacturing of those toys back to the US!
Focuses more on the people who made America the riches nation in the world and to bring back President Bill Clinton request too have all Employer in the United States forward all work related injuries or deaths to Federal government OSHA Dept. for record-keeping by implementing an Engineer patent database since Congress feel they’re better in Information Technology.
These elected officals need to start listening to the people, not the greedy companys and their lobbyist. This current president’s britches have gotten too big. He is obvisously for big corporations.
He panders to their every whim. He knows he has screwed the working men and women of America. He doesn’t care. We have a biased NLRB. We have a biased OSHA. We have a biased supreme court. We need to make the NLRB and OSHA appointments fair, so as to have an equal number of democrats and an equal number of republicans. We need to put term limits on the lenght of time a supreme court justice can serve. Quite frankly they may even need to be elected by the people. With term limits of course. If a biased NLRB board sends a case to a biased supreme court, who wins? Not the backbone of this country, that’s for sure. This administration has allowed corporations to break every rule in the book. It’s time to stand up union brothers and sisters and those of you who are not in a union, who are tired of the man taking advantage of you. Fight for some self respect. Fight for safe and decent work environments. Stand up and fight back!
And for those of you who think this is just union rhetoric, I say that’s the only thing you ever say when working men and women have had enough of corporate elitist trying to rule the world and decide to speak out.
The very best thing that the next president can do to protect the health and safety of people in the workplace IS TO LISTEN TO THE WORKERS THAT DO THE JOB. They know first hand the problems they are faced with and they know first hand what it will take to fix the problems. American workers are smart, resourceful, dedicated, and more than willing to help out other workers who need help. The next president should have the utmost respect for these workers and guarantee that they have the right to organize, form unions, have adequate living wages, have health care, and child care. The next president will appoint skilled, impartial and qualified people to monitor businesses and corporations, and protect the workers from corporate greed. The next president would have to guarantee that the well-being of the American worker has to take priority over government and corporations, for it is the governmnet and the corporations that can only be as good and as strong as the workers themselves.
i don,t see anyone in politics today that has an interest in makeing things better for north American workers today. they can,t hear what we are saying if we were standing on there toes screaming . i,m afraid i don,t have any one to vote for because there all hurting me and i don,t vote for people who don,t have something i would like or need .
when i go to work all i see are people who are at each others throat trying to show the boss what a better good boy he is .
now that i,m ready to retire a couple of guys have treated me as a union brother which was a breath of fresh air while the rest still dog me til i don,t even like to work with them or go to work at all .
the democrats have not supported equality ,better pay , keeping jobs at home , closed borders , safty at work or punishing criminals , i for one don,t like have the things i work for stolen . i don,t think many workers do . but the fordomo,s they want to forgive everyone as if they are gods . i want people who understand the problems of people who weren,t born rich .
best of all , they support giving the illegals citizenship when they are the stick the boss is useing to beat us down with . the truth is we would have the club again if we get rid of most of them . and we don,t have to build a fence either . put the employers in jail , they are the rats on this ship .
WE NEED PEOPLE WHO CAN GET THINGS DONE NOT TROW US SCRAPES …WE DO GIVE THEM A LOT OF MONEY , LETS GET PAY NOW NOT LATTER .
Our country has found what is really disposable, working class people
We will not get the protections needed for what we contribute
Railroaders lose limbs and then have to prove equipment failure
Transit workers bodies break down, your spine turns to brittle bones, and your abdominal circulation slows, let alone your stress level or your chemical exposures. Why would politicians care about the working class when not one has ever experienced a job. We do not honor workers we only give over hard earned money in hopes that someone will care. We are made to believe that politicians and top Union leaders care, if that is true then where is the accountability???
We need leaders that actually care about the people of this country. We should come first and foremost in the minds of the politicians but unfortunately all they care about are how their coiffers are filled by special interests that can best serve them.
We also need the people in this country to realize and read what is truly going on. Theis country has become very dysfunctional and its dillusioning and poisoning the minds of the ones thta are trying to better themselves.
We need action not rhetoric. We need somone who has the guts to stand by the people of this land. This is suppose to be a government ” of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Unfortunately there are politicians that talk out of both sides of their mouths. They wish to control us and push us back 100 years.
We as a whole have the power to assert the next leadership and make sure they address our needs. Universal Healthcare, Dispose of all Free Trade Agreements, Penalize Moneygrubbing Corporations moving jobs overseas just to line their pockets. We need to stand up to Japan, China, Korea and their currency manipulations.
Lets elect officials in all forms of leadership who will fight for us !!!!!!!
Take worker’s interests seriously, and be more than just a rubber stamp for corporate lobbyists.
Require his appointed Attorney General to criminally prosecute the principal Owners and CEO’s of businesses and corporations that require, as a condition of employment, their employees to work in unsafe or unhealthy conditions. Worker endangerment on purpose is malicious premeditation, on accident is reckless negligence. Either way, if the death of an employee results; it should carry a death penalty sentence. This would turn the tide in the battle between quality of life and quantity of gain.
isn’t the better question “What will WE do to ensure a president” who will focus on work place safety, workers rights, and health care?
I can not get over the fact that the only candidate which has consistently stood up for unions and workers is being ignored by the unions. Much less not even endorsed.
We will never have a real change until we look beyond the top 3.
The problem is that when a key government position comes up, the appointer picks a candidate from his “FBI pool” (friends, brothers and in-laws) which guarantees that the appointee will know little or nothing about the field he or she is about to regulate and head, and the appointment takes place with no regard to the experience, integrity or character of the appointee. (It usually depends more on the appointee’s contributions to the appointer’s political party and/or friends from corporate America.)
American unions need to band together and follow the example of the Norwegian labor unions. Norwegian labor unions choose candidates for the position and campaign hard to see that their person gets the appointment so that they can be sure that their leaders have the background, experience and character to do the job right.
The unions need to set up a list of candidates for MSHA, OSHA, NLRB and the Department of Labor from union members and people in the industry they represent. When a position opens up, unions notify their members and other unions to start campaigning by phone, letters and emails. Together we have a huge force, why not use our combined power to do this? Several years ago, one activist group mounted a campaign against a bill in one state. Their campaign sent over 200,000 messages in one day and defeated it. We could do even better than that with the total power of union members in the US!
Since it seems that all candidates have a common agenda (CFR members) except Ron Paul, who do you think labor parties and the worker should support. Labor can no longer afford the Democratic Party lies that remove Freedom and Liberty and sell the future of our children. There is only one candidate in 2008 - view www.ronpaul2008.com who is not part of the CFR agenda.
This long stand of being puppets to the Democratic Party must end. Every vote for them is another nail in the coffin that will hold the Constitution and the future of our children.
I am not a sheeple! I cannot be taken by the ear to the poll to vote some else’s decision; I have to look at each candidate and their record before deciding who gets my vote. I cannot consider whether the media is downplaying or even having a full news blackout of my choice. I feel voting for anyone less, such as the best of two evils, is betraying myself, my family and my country. I’d be selling my soul if I did less than vote for the BEST CHOICE!
Join the Revolution - Ron Paul 2008 - our future does depend on it!
VOTE EARLY - paper only! I trust those machines as much as I am sure 911 was a box cutter event! If not so serious, that could be funny even.
If you doubt the CFR reference just go to www.cfr.org and do a search for the person you think I am wrong about. While there read the plans of which the other candidates are all members in support of.
This may sound idealistic but I think if every blogger put a sign on their lawn expressing what I see here it would make a difference. We are the choir and pretty much agree about the lobbies running our government and Bush appointing corporate pigs to run all regulatory offices. I put signs up on my car and my lawn and people gather and talk and almost always give me the thumps up. If everyone that was disgusted with this administration put sign up it would empower the people. Also write newspapers and congress but that only goes so far because they are owned by corporations. I feel empowered by other people putting signs up. What if everyone walking home from mass transit passed hundreds of signs expressing what they feel? It gives you strength to know you are not alone.
The next President should come from the working class people. He/she should have to work for a living in order to truly appreciate the values of us common citizens. The people whom are elected, and the people who steel elections and even the ones who are appointed by our courts have nothing in common with us and therefore, know not what our needs are.
AMERICANS FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
3406 MAITLAND-SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78259
FAX: 210-481-9725 PHONE: 210-481-9725
Oct 12th, 2007
IF YOU LOVE OUR COUNTRY
Vote for Ron Paul
I call on Republicans, Democrats and independents to vote for Ron Paul
Today America is at war in two fronts, in Iraq and at home, the Iraq war it is nothing compare to the war we have at home, at home our enemy is with-in our Government, the special interest, the big corporation and the Council on Foreign Relations.
The conspiracy to control the American government, the media and some special interest to form the North American Union has become known to more people over the last two decades.
This invisible government which likes a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation is our enemy with-in. At the head is a small group of banking houses, some big US corporations and some of our elite rich citizens. This little exclusive group runs our foreign policy and our government, for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen…seizes…our executive officers…legislative bodies…schools…courts…newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.
Why do you think that our President George W. Bush, Home land Security, The US Department of Justice, ICE, The US Dept. Of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security some of our States, Cities, the catholic church and some of the congressmen and senators and elected official are pro open border and amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens ?. Why our own people rally in support of an issue that we all know is destroying our country and our way of life?
The answer is plain and simple, they all sell out to the big corporations, the rich elite, and the special interest, which the Council on foreign Relation control, and they become our enemy with-in, that their objective is to form the American Union and destroy our sovereign, our constitution and our country. Day after day we experience the destruction of our country, in our schools, our hospitals, our social service and our cities. Our demand for capital to meet expenses of illegal aliens for social services, education, Medicaid, law enforcement and incarceration run into hundreds of billions nation wide.
The Iraq war cost about $10 billion per month (plus another $1.9 billion per month for Afghanistan), and a total accumulated cost by 2017 of between “about $1 trillion to $1.45 trillion” including both wars and other costs of the Global War on Terror. All of that money we have to barrow it and our national debt is over 10.7 trillions and growing.
The Debt Tax
The debt tax is twenty one cents out of every federal tax dollar. This is the amount required to pay the interest on the existing national debt, and pays nothing toward principal.
The U.S. Congress has done this damage to their constituents in a little over twenty years!
Both Houses of Congress have been unwilling or unable to say no to the President’s disastrous economic and foreign policies. Unfortunately for the future of our nation, Mr. Bush has not seen fit to shrink spending. Despite his rhetoric, his actions show controlling spending has certainly not been one of his priorities.
Our trade Deficit is over $ 59 billions per month. In 2006 the bureau said that the trade deficit or gap between what the United States sells abroad and what it imports, reached a new high of $763.3 billion last year, a 6.5 percent increase over the year before. The deficit was fueled by the continuing need for foreign oil and imports of consumer goods from China and other countries.
China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) was supposed to improve the U.S. trade deficit with China and create good jobs in the United States. But those promises have gone unfulfilled: the total U.S. trade deficit with China reached $235 billion in 2006. Between 2001 and 2006, this growing deficit eliminated 1.8 million U.S. jobs (Scott 2007). The world’s biggest retailer, U.S.-based Wal-Mart was responsible for $27 billion in U.S. imports from China in 2006 and 11% of the growth of the total U.S. trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2006. Wal-Mart’s trade deficit with China alone eliminated nearly 200,000 U.S. jobs in this period.
The manufacturing sector and its workers were hardest hit by the growth of Wal-Mart’s imports. Wal-Mart’s increased trade deficit with China eliminated 133,000 manufacturing jobs, 68% of those jobs lost from Wal-Mart’s imports. Jobs in the manufacturing sector pay higher wages and provide better benefits than most other industries, especially for workers with less than a college education.
Jobs lost to outsourcing in the US, while more than 400,000 jobs were sent offshore from January 2000 to August 2006. This only means that more companies in the US find the idea of outsourcing jobs wiser to improve their bottom line and profits. That is why there are a large number of total jobs lost to outsourcing.
Jobs lost to Illegal aliens, Harvard Professor George Borjas has reported that illegal aliens displaced American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion dollars in 2005. No one cannot convince me that if you paid a decent wage to American workers, that they would not take many of these jobs. Drywall hangers, for example, used to make $18, $20 an hour; now the going rate is $8 to $10 an hour. These are jobs that Americans cannot afford to work in because they cannot afford to live in sub-standard living conditions. On the other hand, people who have no interest in this country, who live with 15 adult males, unrelated, in a one-bedroom apartment…and send most of their money back home – They are more than willing to take those jobs. Corruption is the obstacle to economic and social development. That is why it is important to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration. Illegal aliens send home $24 billions Dollars in 2006, that is $24 billion Dollars out of our economic that should create job for Americans, but benefit other foreign countries economics.
Attention Republican National Committee: I know that Congressman Ron Paul scares you; I understand you’re scared of new ideas. But the thing is, they are old ideas; as old as this country.
You need to realize that many people want Ron Paul for our President, They don’t want your candidates that sell out to the Council on Foreign Relations, we are going in the wrong direction and we need a change of direction.
You think Ron Paul has some radical ideas about getting the government off our backs, ending foreign aid and bringing our troops home to protect this country. Those are not radical ideas really, they are the ideas of George Washington, Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan - they are quintessentially conservative ideas. I know you’ve gotten confused about what conservative means but believe me when I say that neo-conservatism is not conservatism.
Ron Paul is a REAL conservative; listen to the roots of the Republican conservative idea of smaller less intrusive government, lower taxes, and more freedom.
Ron Paul is the only Republican who has staked out popular positions on the two most significant issues of the 2008 election cycle. He is anti-occupation and pro-border control. No amount of Bush administration spin is going to change the fact that “the surge” is strategically irrelevant, that the neocon’s Democratic World Revolution is a total failure and that Mexico is being allowed to invade the United States. In short, Ron Paul is the only Republican whose positions on the two primary issues are different than Hillary Clinton’s stance on them, and, more importantly, are more credible and more popular than Hillary Clinton’s. He is the only Republican whose nomination can realistically be considered a potential impediment to what otherwise looks like a Democratic landslide.
Before you support any candidates you should know which of the 2008 candidates, and potential candidates, are current members of this Council on Foreign Relations organization. You will notice that they are from both of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party, men and women.
They are:
Fred Thompson, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani
John McCain. Mitt Romney, Jim Gilmore, Newt Gingrich, Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson. If any of these candidates become president he or she will pass an amnesty to illegal aliens and the future of the American working class will be one of an economic slave, and our country will be no more it will become part of the North American Union.
Ron Paul is one of the few candidates who are not members of the CFR. We must vote for him to be our next President.
Juan Reynoso
voteforamerica@hotmail.com
AMERICANS FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
3406 MAITLAND-SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78259
FAX: 210-481-9725 PHONE: 210-481-9725
Oct 12th, 2007
IF YOU LOVE OUR COUNTRY
Vote for Ron Paul
I call on Republicans, Democrats and independents to vote for Ron Paul
www.RonPaul2008.com
WAKE UP AMERICA, RON PAUL IS OUR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY, STOP THIS TRADE POLICY THAT BENEFIT ONLY THE US CAPITALISM AT THE EXPENSES OF OUR CONSTITUTION, THE RULE OF LAW AND THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS.
Illegal immigration is all about money. Why do you think that our President George W. Bush, Home land Security, The US Department of Justice, ICE, The US Dept. Of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security some of our States, Cities, the catholic church and some of the congressmen and senators and elected official are pro open border and amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens ?. Why our own people rally in support of an issue that we all know is destroying our country and our way of life?
The answer is plain and simple, they all sell out to the big corporations, the rich elite, and the special interest, which the Council on foreign Relation controls, we are talking about the big money buying politicians for support of policies that benefit them and are destroying our country.
Our government strategy of open border policy is to suppress the wages of the American labor force. Clearly, a titanic labor struggle lies ahead. The governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States have been complicit in the sustained war on the workers that capital has been waging relentlessly for the last three decades. Undeniably, the U.S. worker have suffered serious setbacks under President Bush open border policy, U.S. production and transportation jobs was lost to the wholesale exploitation of illegal aliens workers, this is just one facet of the US corporations capital’s assault on the American working class. NAFTA is a failure. While the off shoring of production jobs to Mexico under NAFTA has been a boon to U.S. capitalism, the negative impact on labor has been well documented. Between the signing of NAFTA in 1993 and the year 2002, 879,280 production jobs in the United States were displaced. Most of these lost jobs were relatively high-wage positions in manufacturing industries and a significant number were relocated to Mexico under NAFTA. The manufacturing centers of the Northeast and Midwest and the states of California, Texas, and Florida were hit the hardest. NAFTA has also contributed to rising income inequality, suppressed real wages for production workers, and reduced fringe benefits. NAFTA has not lived up to its promise of better jobs and faster growth for Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Instead it has promoted an integrated continental economy with rules set by and for the benefit of the political and economic elite
The off shoring of transportation jobs to Mexico, which will produce more of the same, is on the works. Utilizing their political clout at the state and national level, and spurred on by the U.S. Supreme Court decision facilitating the widespread seizure of land by states for private economic development, big capital has already begun construction on sections of the I-35 and I-69 Corridors in Texas under exclusive development agreements without disclosing the terms of those contracts. Despite opposition to the NAFTA corridors by the citizens of Texas and some special interest groups, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Department of Transportation is going all out to promote the Texas section of the NAFTA corridor system by conducting carefully staged public meetings to fabricate a sham political consensus in the state.
The whole problem is that our own government is complicit on this complot to make our working class an economic slave, this open border policy of the bush administration, NAFTA and the proposed North American Union, will benefit only the US Capitalism at the expenses of our sovereign, the rule of law and the American Working class.
I will like that every elected official be issue a copy of our US constitution so they become well inform of their duties and their responsibilities to the people that elected them. Most sale-out to the corporations for campaign money and political support, by doing so they become “THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE WITH-IN OUR GOVERNMENT” We the people must vote out of office all the corrupt politicians that for the love of money and power vote for legislations that will destroy our country our constitution, the rule of law, our way of life and our economic welfare.
Ron Paul’s integrity, Honesty and loyalty to the American people, should prevail over our corrupt government. We must vote for Ron Paul, our future on the line.
Juan Reynoso
voteforamerica@hotmail.com
the next president should make sure that safety comes first.he or
she should make sure there is an inspection of work place sites more than just once in a while. that should be a law.that is what I would like to see them do.but unfortunetly the reason it will not happen is there is no congressmen who can get rich from there being a safe work enviorment.