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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 ::
sometimes a typo is more than a misplaced decimal, especially on such a timely topic - compare the following article, run by dozens of newspapers today, with the article below it posted 02/25/2004:
Families Lobby for Workplace Safety By Jeffrey McMurray, AP
In an investigative series on workplace deaths, The New York Times last year found 1,242 cases between 1982 and 2002 in which OSHA concluded workers had died because of 'willful' safety violations by employers. OSHA sought prosecution on only 93 percent of those cases. There were only 11 convictions.
Justice Dept. Drops Most Criminal OSHA Referrals occupationalhazards.com
Critics in Congress and elsewhere have been hammering OSHA ever since a recent New York Times article revealed that over the past 20 years, the agency failed to seek criminal prosecution against 93 percent of the companies whose willful violations of safety rules caused workers to die.------------------------------------------- posted 6:02 PM :: reference link ::
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