I call on the President to enact a Work Control Proposal!
Maybe he could put a ban on jobs, or restrictions on job seekers and strengthen federal background checks of people attempting to get a job.;)
Don’t look now, but he already has.
:: 150 people will be killed on the job or die from job-related illnesses and diseases today ::
Maybe they should all be working South-side Chicago. Only 14 injured and 2 dead over the weekend.
Coming from the thug Trumka, I suspect this is pure horsesh*t.
As someone who has worked both sides of the workplace safety regulations and been trained and a trainer of Worker’s Compensation/OSHA safety training, it has been my experience that the majority of deadly injuries often comes from an employee failing to follow a safety requirement.
I would even push the AFL-CIO to reveal just how many of the 150 are actually UNION employees who the company was either unable to discipline or terminate for reckless behavior that eventually caused injury to themselves or others.
Maybe the union thugs should stop protecting their members getting drunk on the job.
What a shocker! I had no idea that many people were still employed in this country.
“. . . or die from job-related illnesses and diseases today . . .”
This sort of politicized propaganda is usually supported by some statistical statement that more often than not is scientifically bogus, and in this bit of union bilge, that bit of sleight-of-hand is packed into the quote above.
I’d guess the majority of the deaths cited where associated with illness (rather than job-site accidents), and the attribution of a given illness to a specific work-place condition is usually dicey at best. If somebody dies of bladder cancer and they worked in the rubber industry 30 years ago, there’s a good chance there’s a causal relationship; if they died of lung cancer and they worked in a manufacturing plant, there’s no way of telling. And I don’t expect the AFL-CIO is going to be real careful in evaluating their epidemiology on this stuff.
Outlaw jobs to stop these senseless deaths.
". . . killed on the job or die from job-related illnesses and diseases today." 90 year old guy who passes away while arguably still affected by a work-related injury that occurred 40 years ago is included in this. So is everybody who managed to convince the workman's compensation board that their heart disease or high blood pressure was work-related (not a difficult exercise). I would like to see the proportion between actual death on the job attributable to working conditions . . . and everything else.
how many are union scum falling off their shovel??? 
Work dangerous? Ban it immediately.
Things must be really bad, at least based on 8,865,586 American workers on Social Security disability this time last year.
Perhaps corporations should rethink policies such as strewing oily marbles on work floors and putting walkways over vats of boiling acid.
Must have neglected the police union stats. The must get killed at much higher rates, leading to their need to shoot anything that moves.
Someone makes up a statistic out of whole cloth and if it makes a point that the left wants made, it is spread throughout the MSM. It drive me crazy.
I usually respond with some ridiculous stat of my own.
Did you know that 2.75 million Americans died last month trying to have the amount of sex that Sandra Fluke claimed that I needed to pay for her to have?
This is just so false I can't believe Trumka said it.
I worked in aerospace, and every once in a while we would have someone die in an accident, but the company and every employee tried hard to prevent that. For every accident, there were many other deaths which came from people working long after they should have retired. A lot of people made very goofy personal decisions which put them in a bad place financially. We had a guy in the receiving department who let his mid-40s daughter and her worthless husband move into his house. Then he had to work to support them when he should have retired. For a long time, he drove a truck which shuttled equipment and supplies between several facilities a few miles apart. Then he had a heart attack, but still wanted to work. So management found a spot shuttling an electric cart all within one facility. Another heart attack and they insisted he retire. He was dead in a week. Trumka would lay this at the company's feet saying the company "worked him to death. Nonsense, it was his daughter and her husband who worked him to death.
