Sure glad to see the administration siding with labor over management:
“My hands really began to hurt was when I switched to deboning,” 59-year-old Salvadora Roman said through an interpreter at a Capitol Hill news conference. “We have to pull the bone up and take the meat off---really rip it from the bone ... The real problem here is the lines go really fast.”Currently, plants run processing lines at a maximum rate of 140 birds an hour. Under the USDA’s proposed plan, line speeds can rise to 175 birds an hour.
This might---repeat, might---have been acceptable if we had enacted an increase in the minimum wage for these workers when we had the votes to do it. But no, it wasn't even discussed because we needed to reduce the deficit and embrace austerity, and spend all our remaining political capital on health-care legislation that transfers billions of dollars from taxpayers to insurance companies. Why are these people even considering regulatory changes that endanger both workers and consumers? Beats me, but they must either be (a) very stupid, or (b) truly evil.
---Baron V
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