Missouri Voters Overturn Right-To-Work Measure

[Benton]

(08-09-2018, 08:33 AM)Au165 Wrote: Can we stop with the line about unions preventing limbs getting chopped off? There was a time that was relevant however OSHA and the quickness which litigation is thrown around in our society have made that function of unions obsolete today.

Republicans have been shrinking niosh and OSHA the last couple years at the federal level, and, as wyche pointed out, there’s some state efforts there.

Personally, it’s one of the reasons I’m in favor of unions, mostly due to a long story about a family member who was injured on the job because the plant was trying to save money on valves. The union reps talked to him and the company, which agreed to replace the faulty valves in lieu of a lawsuit. This was the late 1980s, not 1880s.