LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL DANGERS FOR THE DISENFRANCHISED AND THE POOR!
When one gets hired by the labor pool, one knows they are not going to make much money. Maybe enough to pay gas, buy a bag of groceries or a six pack of beer and some cigarettes and a meal at a fast food place. A person cannot pay their rent with the money, there's not enough. They can't pay a bill with it.But one can NEVER imagine that these temp workers would be exposed to environmental sludge and toxic waste without any kind of protections or cautions taken by the company that they are working for or by the government agency that is contracting them.
The local government (have not been able to determine if this is state or city or county) has negotiated a contract with Able Body to send workers (poor, drug-addicted, desperate and/or homeless or just regular people without work) to a specific area here in Clearwater/Feather Sound to work WITHOUT COVERINGS OR PROTECTION in a run-off--retention pond that has fluids running off from other construction areas and smells of sulpher and other chemicals.
The workers were told by the supervisors that they were planting water plants and foliage in the retention pond to make the water pure again. The workers were paid $5.15 an hour for this work-- waste deep in chemical sludge with no protection from the chemicals or snakes.
Workers from Able Body were also appointed to act as foremen over other Able Body Temp workers and were not paid any additional monies for this "promotion."
These workers were contracted to do this job because the regular government workers probably did not want to do it! It is so easy to get desperate people to do what you want them to do when you have something that they need to survive.
When will the exploitation of the disenfranchised end?
Stay tuned for more on this subject...
posted by Zalala @ 6/10/2004 01:48:00 PM
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