YES! But, not without regular inspections and enforcement.
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NO! Corporations don’t care about safety. Just profits.
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In our state there rules seem to be followed since industries must pay into the state's labor and industries insurance that pays compensation if workers are injured on the job. However we are still a fairly strong union state, which sets a higher standard here.
Waiting around for government to come to its senses doesn't seem to be working. We need to do what we can on our own. I believe we would do better to support and encourage more co-op type industries as they're the best way around union busting politics.
Find info at: usworker.coop
Thom,
It was good seeing you here in Portland this weekend on Saturday. But even as you were staying here in Portland late on Friday night, we had here a terrible factory accident in a meat packing plant where a janitor cleaning fell in to a working meat grinder and was killed. Wasn't covered in the media until Monday after you left. This place in Clackamas had a history of violations in inspections by OSHA, and the death is being investigated now.
http://www.firehouse.com/news/10931753/ore-firefighter-remove-mans-body-...
Kind of ironic that yet another of society's problems affects Clackamas county in less than a year's time (election fraud, mall shooting, and now industrial accident) and happens when you are visiting here and talk about the same subject on the Tuesday you get back to DC, which typifies the scope of this sort of problem that is happening so many places now (Texas, Bangladesh, and Clackamas, Oregon).