One of Obama's Social Security Slasher Wannabes Threatens Small Town with Nuclear Annihilation

[IndianaGreen]

One of Obama's Social Security Slasher Wannabes Threatens Small Town with Nuclear Annihilation

David Cote is so dangerous he's willing to risk nuclear fallout in order to force uranium workers to cut their retiree health care and pension plans.

September 1, 2010

A lot of attention has recently been focused on one of President Barack Obama's top advisers on the Federal Debt Commission -- Former Senator Alan Simpson, R-WY. Simpson has generated justifiable outrage for describing Social Security as "a milk cow with 310 million tits." But Simpson isn't the only unhinged fanatic on Obama's Debt Commission. One man, in particular, stands out as far more sinister, and he was hand-picked for the Commission post by Obama himself.

Meet Honeywell CEO David Cote -- perhaps the most dangerous man in America. So dangerous that he's willing to risk nuclear fallout in order to demand that uranium workers agree to cut their retiree health care and pension plans.

Honeywell runs the only conversion facility in the world that can distill pure uranium, located in Metropolis, Illinois. On June 28, Honeywell locked out its union workers during contract negotiations because the union, United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7-669, refused to accept the company's proposal to eliminate retiree health care and pension plans for new hires and increase workers' out-of-pocket health care to $8,500 a year. Good health care coverage for retirees is especially important to uranium workers, who suffer rates of cancer 10 times higher than the general public due to their daily interaction with radioactive material. It's easy to see why the workers would refuse to give in to demands to eliminate retiree health care coverage.

In a major concession, the uranium workers' union refused to go on strike, out of concern for the safety of their complex and dangerous facility. To keep the plant safe, the union agreed to continue working under an extension of its current contract. But that didn't satisfy Honeywell, which is already making record profits. It decided it could make even more if it played hardball with its workers, risking a nuclear disaster.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/148044/one_of_obama%27s_social_security_slasher_wannabes_threatens_small_town_with_nuclear_annihilation/?page=entire

[NJmaverick]

1. Didn't you already post this hyperbole filled dreck in GDP?

[IndianaGreen]

2. Are you now defending Honeywell CEO David Cote?

And are you now engaging in an attack on a poster, rather than on a story written by someone else?

[silverlib]

5. What?

Geez...I don't have one, but I think I'll start an ignore list.

[griffi94]

3. here's more on that

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-elk/nuclear-regulators-close_b_704023.html

[IndianaGreen]

4. Thanks for the link to a story corroborating the allegations against David Cote

Cote's views on pensions are a source a legitimate concern since he now sits in the Cat Food Commission, right alongside long-time enemies of Social Security and Medicare like Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson.

[griffi94]

6. the story

said cotes was one of obamas personal picks for the commission.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Obama handpicked the members of the commission

as he did the co-chairs.

[Nite Owl]

8. Every day it seems

some new thing comes out about the Catfood Commission that makes things worse.
I'm not seeing anything good about this or how it can be condoned in any way.