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**MormefWrarebe** · 10-03-2011, 10:04 PM

Tell that to the families of the miners who worked for Massey. Gov't regulations really did a lot to help them. They were cited more than a thousand times over a few months for safety violations, but the laws have no teeth. And thanks to Reagan helping to bust up and castrate the UMWA in the 80's, they had no union representation.

I agree that gov't pencil pushers and teachers aren't in mortal danger due to working conditions. But to claim unions serve no current use at all is ridiculous.

The legislation has plenty of teeth, it just wasn't properly enforced. Frankly I think Massey should be heavily fined for all of the violations, and whatever division of government was in charge of enforcing the law should be severely reprimanded. But unions can do as much as they damn well please because nothing of what they do is going to be effective whatsoever if the government doesn't enforce the legislation.

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MormefWrarebe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 476 Senior Member	Tell that to the families of the miners who worked for Massey. Gov't regulations really did a lot to help them. They were cited more than a thousand times over a few months for safety violations, but the laws have no teeth. And thanks to Reagan helping to bust up and castrate the UMWA in the 80's, they had no union representation. I agree that gov't pencil pushers and teachers aren't in mortal danger due to working conditions. But to claim unions serve no current use at all is ridiculous. The legislation has plenty of teeth, it just wasn't properly enforced. Frankly I think Massey should be heavily fined for all of the violations, and whatever division of government was in charge of enforcing the law should be severely reprimanded. But unions can do as much as they damn well please because nothing of what they do is going to be effective whatsoever if the government doesn't enforce the legislation.
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