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Wire cages to prevent Chinese workers from leaping to their deaths in despair; remember the Triangle Fire; IPODs don’t go down in price just because workers are paid $120 a month to work 15 hour days in CAGES!

amberpaw | Thu, Sep 22, 2011 9:17 AM EST

http://mollysmiddleamerica.blogspot.com/2011/03/chinese-suicide-ipod-sweatshops.html

The way these suicides are being prevented is to cage the workers

Of course, it isn’t just Apple. Think Disney, and I can list others.

I wonder what happens if there is a fire? You cannot jump. The stairways are locked. Remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire? I remember it in part because I grew up around folks who lost mothers, sisters and friends in that fire. That is what happens when your still-living father was born in 1912, and your mother in 1917.

Union haters WANT you to forget – or never to have known about the Triangle Fire. They want you to ignore the “Hyiatization” of jobs, and busting real folks from living wages of $20.00 an hour to wage-slavery at $8.00 an hour where two jobs and 16 hour work days deprive children of parents – just as in China and the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company so the plutocracy can be worth billions. If the union movement falters and dies than we will see more and more despairing workers in conditions like those exposed in my first link.

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And for some of us closer to the bone:
Inside Amazon’s warehouse

Workers said they were forced to endure brutal heat inside the sprawling warehouse and were pushed to work at a pace many could not sustain. Employees were frequently reprimanded regarding their productivity and threatened with termination, workers said. The consequences of not meeting work expectations were regularly on display, as employees lost their jobs and got escorted out of the warehouse. Such sights encouraged some workers to conceal pain and push through injury lest they get fired as well, workers said.

During summer heat waves, Amazon arranged to have paramedics parked in ambulances outside, ready to treat any workers who dehydrated or suffered other forms of heat stress. Those who couldn’t quickly cool off and return to work were sent home or taken out in stretchers and wheelchairs and transported to area hospitals. And new applicants were ready to begin work at any time.

An emergency room doctor in June called federal regulators to report an “unsafe environment” after he treated several Amazon warehouse workers for heat-related problems. The doctor’s report was echoed by warehouse workers who also complained to regulators, including a security guard who reported seeing pregnant employees suffering in the heat.
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Goris, the Allentown resident who worked as a permanent Amazon employee, said high temperatures were handled differently at other warehouses in which he worked. For instance, loading dock doors on opposite sides of those warehouses were left open to let fresh air circulate and reduce the temperature when it got too hot, he said. When Amazon workers asked in meetings why this wasn’t done at the Amazon warehouse, managers said the company was worried about theft, Goris said.

kirth @ Thu 22 Sep 11:46 AM