Injury on job site

[Psy]

There was a major injury at my work (the worker is hospitalized), I can tell management is shitting their pants over being liable for not properly training workers, yet I am disgusted at how co-workers take the stance that it is the workers fault for getting himself hurt. Also our union is fucking useless (they voted down demanding a wage increase) and telling workers to wait for the accident report.

I gather other workplaces are like this so how do you get the workers to stop being complacent? It sickens me that a worker ends in the hospital and the workers don't stir.

[R_P_A_S]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15, 2007 11:17 pm
There was a major injury at my work (the worker is hospitalized), I can tell management is shitting their pants over being liable for not properly training workers, yet I am disgusted at how co-workers take the stance that it is the workers fault for getting himself hurt. Also our union is fucking useless (they voted down demanding a wage increase) and telling workers to wait for the accident report.

I gather other workplaces are like this so how do you get the workers to stop being complacent? It sickens me that a worker ends in the hospital and the workers don't stir.
i know bro is sick. even at work everyone is out for them selves.

[rouchambeau]

If nothing else, you can give your support to your co-worker.

Good luck! Don't give in!

[Psy]

Originally posted by R_P_A_S+July 15, 2007 11:30 pm--> (R_P_A_S @ July 15, 2007 11:30 pm)
[email protected] 15, 2007 11:17 pm
There was a major injury at my work (the worker is hospitalized), I can tell management is shitting their pants over being liable for not properly training workers, yet I am disgusted at how co-workers take the stance that it is the workers fault for getting himself hurt. Also our union is fucking useless (they voted down demanding a wage increase) and telling workers to wait for the accident report.

I gather other workplaces are like this so how do you get the workers to stop being complacent? It sickens me that a worker ends in the hospital and the workers don't stir.
i know bro is sick. even at work everyone is out for them selves.[/b]
The injury made me lose what respect I had for bourgeois unions, for starters my shift learned about the accident from management and not the union. Next the slow down was done by the workers themselves and not the fucking union (and that was mostly because workers figured out quickly that managers were so focused on the accident they were not paying attention to productivity) while the union sits on its ass till the accident report is released.

It irritates that my co-workers don't see our own union is managing us and we could do better with a self-managed union.

[Severian]

So people did a slow down? Heck, that's pretty good - and something to build on. Sounds like people did stir, so maybe they shouldn't all be put down.

[Psy]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10, 2007 12:46 am
So people did a slow down? Heck, that's pretty good - and something to build on. Sounds like people did stir, so maybe they shouldn't all be put down.
A slow down in response to management becoming totally disorented and trying to defuse what they saw as potential strike (we are union shop, just a crappy union shop). Many workers noticed managers kissing their ass and took advantage of it. Now that management got its act together and noticed how weak the union is, thus management has restored the workplace to normality.

Management seems to know that our wages are low and for a moment though the accident would cause all our grievances to come forward, but it didn't and I think management will become more confident because of it.