http://www.hazards.org/greenjobs/blog/2009/11/22/bp-the-killer-they-like-to-forgive/ Hazards magazine | International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.hazards.org/greenjobs/blog/2009/11/22/bp-the-killer-they-like-to-forgive/comment-page-1/#comment-122 MF @ Gatwick Airport Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:50:36 +0000 http://www.hazards.org/greenjobs/blog/?p=469#comment-122 First, corporations do not like to fight each other because they may need each other on other matters. Second, hey also have exposable skeletons in their own closets. Third, they do not have to initiate a business war of retaliation. Fourth, they do not want to give their traditional labor, environmental and consumer adversaries cause to strengthen their own power by, in effect, siding with these groups’ traditional causes. First, corporations do not like to fight each other because they may need each other on other matters. Second, hey also have exposable skeletons in their own closets. Third, they do not have to initiate a business war of retaliation. Fourth, they do not want to give their traditional labor, environmental and consumer adversaries cause to strengthen their own power by, in effect, siding with these groups’ traditional causes.

]]> http://www.hazards.org/greenjobs/blog/2009/11/22/bp-the-killer-they-like-to-forgive/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Dorothy Wright Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:32:48 +0000 http://www.hazards.org/greenjobs/blog/?p=469#comment-110 At a meeting with Lord Mckenzie at DWP in London attended by several FACK members to discuss the necessity for individual legal duties on directors,Hilda Palmer of FACK and Manchester Hazards Centre raised the issue of Lord Browne's culpability in these serious incidents Lord McKenzie took strong umbridge saying that Lord Browne was an honourable and personal friend That is the problem isn't it? Those bosses who ignore the safety of employees and those who should take action to bring them to justice dine at the same table and are members of the same club As long as the British public are prepared to let their friends and relatives be killed by these people nothing will be done Wnen are the unions going to get together and call a national strike on this issue? At a meeting with Lord Mckenzie at DWP in London attended by several FACK members to discuss the necessity for individual legal duties on directors,Hilda Palmer of FACK and Manchester Hazards Centre raised the issue of Lord Browne’s culpability in these serious incidents
Lord McKenzie took strong umbridge saying that Lord Browne was an honourable and personal friend
That is the problem isn’t it? Those bosses who ignore the safety of employees and those who should take action to bring them to justice dine at the same table and are members of the same club
As long as the British public are prepared to let their friends and relatives be killed by these people nothing will be done
Wnen are the unions going to get together and call a national strike on this issue?

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