Study finds union mines safer

[Hubert Flottz]

Study finds union mines safer
By Ken Ward Jr.
The Charleston Gazette
Read the study online.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Union coal mines are significantly safer than non-union mining operations, according to a new report from a Stanford University law professor.

Alison D. Morantz found a "substantial and significant decline in traumatic mining injuries and fatalities" at underground mines where workers were members of the United Mine Workers union. The disparities were especially pronounced among larger mines, Morantz found.

The report, published last week by the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at Stanford, found that, over the last two decades, there have been between 18 and 33 percent fewer traumatic injuries at union mines, compared to non-union operations. It found 27 to 68 percent fewer fatal accidents at union mines over the same period. The range in figures accounts for possible statistical variations because of a small sample size. Read More...

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201105261234

[Hubert Flottz]

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[pintobean]

2. I would imagine that's true in most industries. n/t

[trotsky]

3. Might as well say "Study finds the pope is Catholic." n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

4. The union bashing corporation's anti union propaganda organs

have won far too many hearts and minds.

[socialist_n_TN]

10. That was my first thought. This needed a study?

nm

[Scuba]

5. Just another way that Unions are ruining America. Now all those minors...

...will need Medicare.


:sarcasm:

[ThomWV]

6. this is one of those "No Shit!" moments, of course Union mines are safer

A Union is at its base people coming together to work toward their mutual benefit while accomplishing their hired task. It is to the benefit of workers not to be hurt or killed on the job, so the Union will develop routines which promote worker safety - it is what Unions are for, it is what they do.

Non-union mines exist for one purpose, and that is to make the maximum profit for the mine's owner(s). It is less of an expense to the mine to forgo safety precautions than it is to put them in place. Less expense is equal to higher profit, and that is - as said above - the reason for the mine's existence. So it is to the benefit of the mine owner to develop routines which promote mine production without regard to worker safety, it is what they do.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. You and I know these things but the brainwashed American don't

know. The brainwashed believe only what they see and hear on FOX. The Corporate PR machine has been attacking the unions and the middle class working poor, since the 19th century.

Class warfare is real and the wealthy corporate masters want a workforce of brainwashed, ignorant, slaves.

[Octafish]

7. Unions are Democratic

Reality gets trumped by property rights.



The Supreme Clowns serve the Owners.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Every one of those criminals belong behind bars where they're

not a threat to American democracy and the Constitution of the United States of America, anymore.

[DirkGently]

8. Imagine that.