Company issues dipshit press release: https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/impact-plastics-addresses-missing-and-deceased-employees-after-floods/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked – a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft – many of the workers could not escape from the burning building
113 years ago, and bosses are still doing this
Amazon did this to a bunch of workers when there was a horrible tornado in I think Montana? a couple years ago too.
Any communists in organization or with the time and means in or near Tennessee, help organize PR campaigns and blast notices in mail and social media and in person that to all local news and politicians and social media you can to raise hell about this. Help the victims and victims families organize legal action and direct action if you have lawyers on your side (having some legal-types is always good practice) and/or can pool resources together openly and under your org name; door knock if you have to, pass around the hat on socials, link PR campaigns and support links here if you get a donation set up with the families and survivors, whatever; but keep an active central campaign to press for not only damages (that too) but criminal convictions for management for what is tantamount to mass murder It is as close to premeditated individual mass murder as premeditated social murder can get. These managers and owners are no different from mass shooters and that must be made CLEAR.
Do this mercilessly, and force the local government and any politicians and judges it gets thrown up to to show to the victims and to the world and news you have spotlighted on this by never shutting up about it that they side with these open-fanged vampire capitalists who killed them for a dollar while the workers died for pennies.
These ghouls need to be fought, and people need to know and be able to see that people are willing to fight them, and that it is us who are willing to fight them as advanced segments of and on behalf of the working class. Because this kind of shit is only going to keep happening and only going to get worse as the climate crisis worsens and imperial contradictions get reimported. If you are in or near Tennessee and this town or can connect with how to support them, do so, and cycle any links that others can help back to communities here; this is critical.
Honestly this is the kind of shit you should be sharing on your personal social medias guys. I haven't posted on Facebook in like 5 years but I think I will.
The agitprop writes itself.
if you want to see what happened to Erwin, TN, here's drone footage of the aftermath (with annoying music, recommend mute) and a link to the google map for the area
you can see the remains of the Impact Plastics facility at 2:20 in the video
I assumed when I watched it that of course everyone had evacuated from that area
the absolute horror of knowing that many people were trapped there by their fucking employer inspires a deep and visceral thirst for violent retribution
Coming from a place that gets a lot of natural disasters, it's always surprising to see the apparent mismatch between the number of deaths and the actual damage.
Hearing about instances such as these makes the death toll more understandable.
the absolute horror of knowing that many people were trapped there by their fucking employer
Congratulations, now you know how the loved ones of the dead peasants felt during the French / Russian Revolutions, the Jacquerie, etc..
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The management and owners need to be evacuated from their mortal coils
Impact Plastics is working to organize a recovery center to help employees and provide more information on their benefits and job opportunities.
And in bad country the employer opened up a job fair 24 hours later to replace the workers that were killed.
In a better world, this management would be skinned alive, impaled on a spike, and left to die from exposure.
Or more to the point, this could never have happened, because the workers wouldn't be staying there under threat of poverty.
See there's nothing to be concerned about! The company denied doing the thing that would put them on the hook for millions in wrongful death lawsuits. :soypoint-2:
Wow, this is both horrifying and totally unsurprising. One of my least favorite combinations to be honest
in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country in bad country
- And in bad country the immigrants who also demonized and killed by racists were forced to remain behind to disperse treats while their bosses left the scene and they died shortly after.
which one? I opened the facebook one in a private tab in firefox and it works
The fb.watch one, it turns into a horrible broken tracker abomination and fails to redirect properly for lack of cookie acceptance
How about https://www.facebook.com/lwnews1039/videos/902749175064242/ and try in a private tab
Actually I updated the link in the original post because that was probably linked to my (fake) facebook account somehow
