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Don’t base policy on deadly lies

By Rory | Published: 11 November, 2010
Wherever you go, business lobby groups are trotting out cookie-cutter reports claiming businesses are folding, jobs are being lost, and the economy is being devastated. And the cause? The burden of regulation, with health, safety and environmental rules always targeted as top irritants. The perpetual belly-aching about workplace regulations is packaged the same both sides [...]
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Deregulation’s deadly reality gulf

By Rory | Published: 10 August, 2010
Governments listen to business. Left to them, there’s three certainties in life – deregulation, disasters and workplace deaths and diseases. In a new campaign, we remind them that ‘We didn’t vote to die at work.’
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UK government to adopt BP business model

By Rory | Published: 1 July, 2010
John Browne, Tony Hayward’s predecessor as chief executive of BP, has been appointed by the UK government to oversee moves to make Whitehall “more businesslike.” Lord Browne was the architect of the much criticised BP cost- and safety-cutting strategy implicated in the Texas City refinery disaster, which killed 15, and a sequence of other safety [...]
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