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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Friday, May 28, 2004 ::
Commentary: Let's put a real premium on workplace safety By Larry Sillanpa, Duluth Labor World editor
I'm not talking about the 'dead peasant' life insurance variety that the Wal-Marts and others have taken out and retained on workers even after they left that employment.
If a worker were killed on the job, the accidental death benefit would go to their survivors.
PACE and IBEW member Kerry Roe was killed at Sappi in Cloquet last November and Minnesota OSHA just fined the company $57,000 for bad practices that may have led to his death. Generally what happens next is the company appeals the fine and it is cut in half. What a great system! It has little power of inspection or enforcement and the devastated family is still left with their grief and the loss of the bread winner. Is there any deterrent under the current system?
If employers had to pay insurance premiums based partly on pay-offs for accidental deaths, I'd bet they'd improve safety and working conditions. Employers now have workers show up even if injured so they don't count as lost-time injuries and increase premiums.------------------------------------------- posted 6:55 AM :: reference link ::
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