Which is really the “right to fire you if you get injured on the job or if you seek fair compensation for your labor or if you form (or join an existing) an organization which represents the workers to ensure the Equal Protection Under the Law and right to petition the Government for redress of grievances” law.
Since both Springs Utilities and the Corporate Welfare Council are married to the Coal corporations, and they both apparently sponsored the “White” wash of the Ludlow Massacre“incident”
I felt it politic to post this again.
When I was in the hospital after my ankle fusion surgery two years ago there was this young dude in the next bed, who had been in an accident while working for Springs Utilities.
He had been working “under the crane” which is a strict no-no in Union work, because the hooks and or the cable and or the chains attached to the crane have a distressing tendency to snap and to send the load which they were bearing straight down.
Which is what happened in this case, the crane dropped a 2 1/2 ton steel fitting onto his foot.
His mom was visiting him, and a gentleman I think was his brother
His doctor came in, one of the surgeons from Front Range Orthopædics. Who is considered to be one of the Premier surgeons in the country.
He had spent the past three days trying to save the kid’s foot.
But the foot had to be amputated, and he was breaking the news to him and his family that they wouldn’t be able to save it.
After he left, his brother and his mom were telling him he needed to hire an attorney, he told them “No, (one of his friends from work) was talking about it with me and he said to just trust the company, they’ll take care of me”.
I almost bit my tongue in two keeping from interjecting on that score.
Then the Corporate Whore company representative came in, she was telling him what the settlement was the company was offering, his mom said ‘should we hire an attorney to review it?” and the Corporate Whore told her “no need, we’ll take care of him TRUST US
Then proceeded to tell the kid that they were going to assign a doctor to him, one “approved by the Corporation” his mom interjected with the fact that he had one of the best surgeons in America already as his doctor and the Corporate Whore said “yes, we know, he’s an excellent doctor but He Doesn’t Keep Up With The Paperwork”
Which is bullsh ee It of such a high order it deserves a third syllable.
The doctors at Front Range don’t do the paperwork, they have a very competent staff who do that.
Efficient enough that all the major insurers including CHAMPVA, TriCare, Medicare, Medicaid, Just a start on the Government insurers, accept their billing and procedures without question.
She was slick-dicking this kid who was in severe pain, on a morphine drip, and cowing him into obedience to The Company Line.
Politely browbeating him but doing it in a way that Establishes The Dominance of Her Corporate Masters, “Thou Shalt Not Question Our Orders”.
Then she said something truly stunning… she said the company would “generously” allow him two years of disability pay, until he
GETS BACK ON HIS FEET and they realized there would be “cosmetic damage” but it shouldn’t affect his ability to Perform his “duties”.
The bitch hadn’t even consulted with his doctor.
But according to the Right Wing Anti-Union “right to work” Fascists,
It’s supposedly the UNIONS who are victimizing us poor stupid workers.
The kid was still opposed to getting his own attorney.
I hope he wised up and realized that the Company was going to screw him repeatedly and often, as long as he allows them to do it.
If he wants to, he can still change his mind, and I’ll testify for him.
The “settlement” was offered to him while he was under extreme duress, in extreme pain and on enough morphine to keep an elephant high.
Illegal as all Hell, but… without Union representation, the Corporate BigPigs can get away with it often enough to make their obscene profit margins.
People who are invested in that corporation, you gotta realize where your money is coming from.