“Good, honest, hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you.
They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL.
And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on.
The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick thats being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth:
It’s called the American Dream.
Because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
From the WSWS article:
**The OSHA report is a complete whitewash of company, which has slashed over 20,000 jobs from its worldwide workforce over the last decades, outsourced maintenance and repair work to low-cost contractors and pushed its remaining workforce to work 12-16 hour shifts, in some cases, up to 21 days in a row.
It is also a coverup of the role of the United Steelworkers (USW), which operates joint labor-management health and safety committees at the BP Husky plant and did nothing to enforce workers’ demands to shut down the dangerous unit.
In a statement on OSHA’s ruling last week, Mike Smith, the chairman of USW’s national oil bargaining program, said, “While no penalties or fines could ever make up for the lost human lives, we welcome their findings and their efforts to hold BP accountable. Moving forward, our union remains committed to working with OSHA and Cenovus, the facility’s new owner, to ensure this type of tragedy never happens again.'
In fact, the USW bureaucracy has spent decades collaborating with BP, Exxon, Marathon and other corporations to boost corporate profits at the expense of the workers it claims to represent. Seven months before the disaster in Ohio, USW President Tom Conway held secret talks with President Biden to prevent a strike by 30,000 refinery and petrochemical workers, which the White House feared would interfere with its war preparations against Russia. The USW agreed to a government-dictated contract with deep cuts to real wages that did nothing to stop the deadly conditions in the industry.**