Reply #5: OSHA would be on this company in a heartbeat

[Poppyseedman]

if half of what this group says is true.

I've dealt with OSHA for years. Their investigators are very well trained and work with the companies to make the workplace safer.

They also don't put up with a lot of BS. If the company is not making a good faith effort to resolve safety issues and compliance problems, they will write out fines in a heartbeat to get your attention. The company I worked for is $10,000 lighter for it. It was a minor safety issue that was not dealt with in a timely fashion.

A guy leading the effort to unionize the plant yelling "company is violating basic human rights" is going to fall on deaf ears to the company.

Smithfield Foods has violated workers' rights for years, said Tom Clarke, leader of an 11-year effort to unionize the pork plant,...

Unfortunately "the sky is falling" rhetoric can make people tune deaf when it comes to real problems. The boy who cried wolf syndrome

Also please don't accuse the Bushco machine of protecting the plant by intimidating OSHA, most of the OSHA people I dealt with were very progressive and positively disdained Bush.