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Originally posted by lendaddy
Sup, I know you don't condone this crap, but it is the fruit of your labor if you know what I mean.
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Yes I am a labor relations guy and yes, I tend to fall on the side of the working men and women. OTOH, the Labor community I work with would ostracize an opportunist like this one just as quickly as the business community.
There is a movement, and a reasonable one from many social and economics perspectives, to make sure that the prices of manufactured products include and contain all the costs associated with the mfg of that product. No more taxpayer money cleaning up the environment or repairing human bodies injured in the mfg process. I would not agree that the story you told here is an example of that, but that is the lofty principle behind injured worker compensation. And yes, I support the principle, but not the abuses. The alternative is that employers are not held responsible. The judgement of fairness between these two competing interests is unavoidable. And perhaps these judgements have routinely been unfair to employers in recent times. Or at least, they seem to allow for substantial abuse these days. Again, I have a hard time supporting that.
Again, I would say these judgements, of fairness between employers are employees, are not avoidable unless you promote a fairly lawless society where people and companies are not held responsible for their actions. So, its a balance. It's a difficult balance to strike but one that must be struck.
Unless you're ignorant enough to pretend with a straight face that it's all gubmit's fault and it's really simple.
Bottom line is it sounds like you got bent over. Again. And even though we seem to disagree on some stuff, I'm in your camp with pretty much all the stories you have told here.