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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, March 29, 2004 ::
Put 'em to work, poison 'em, then move to China and fire their asses By Jordan Barab, Confined Space
This is an amazing and extremely distrubing article from the East Bay Express about AXT Inc., a Fremont, CA, semiconductor company which exposed its employees to airborne arsenic at levels four times the legal limit in 2000 and was issued 'Willful' citations and penalties of $313,000 by Cal/OSHA, the California workplace health and safety agency.
Company employees were almost entirely recent Chinese immigrants who spoke no English. As a result of the Cal/OSHA inspections and fines, American Xtal Technology (AXT) moved its production operations operations to Beijing, China, where it now has a 1,000-worker factory doing the work that health and safety regulators in California would not allow.------------------------------------------- posted 7:00 AM :: reference link ::
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