almost 4000 expected to die for Qatar world cup!!!

[nottyboi]

Incredible!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ustrates-the-consequences-of-fifa-corruption/

more people will die then died on 911. What FILTHY scumbag country!!

 

[Celticman]

I would like to see a boycott of the major sponsors. WTF, they are party to human rights violations as well as the scandal and graft of FIFA.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-logos-seek-to-shame-fifa-sponsors/

 

[Yoga Face]

Incredible!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ustrates-the-consequences-of-fifa-corruption/

more people will die then died on 911. What FILTHY scumbag country!!

Would someone please chime in and explain why we do not need unions

 

[nobody123]

Everyone calm down, for feck's sakes. It's going to be OK. They've just elected this guy, Sepp Blatter to be the head of FIFA, and he has promised to fight the rampant corruption that had been allowed under the 17-year tenure of his predecessor, Sepp Blatter. He sounds nice, I'm sure he'll fix it all.

 

[Mr Bret]

everyone calm down, for feck's sakes. It's going to be ok. They've just elected this guy, sepp blatter to be the head of fifa, and he has promised to fight the rampant corruption that had been allowed under the 17-year tenure of his predecessor, sepp blatter. He sounds nice, i'm sure he'll fix it all.

lmao

 

[glamphotographer]

If the USA and UEFA don't boycott the fans can do it. Qatar and Russia could be the lowest TV ratings in history. But I don't think FIFA would care as long there pockets are lined with cash.

 

[SchlongConery]

Would someone please chime in and explain why we do not need unions

Well, I think the rate of workplace injuries in civilized countries like Canada is not that much different between large employers of unionized and non-unionized workers.

Oh and another reason we don't need them is because their latest leaders use their members as pawns in their own personal empire building and create strikes with far greater social costs and consequences like we are seeing with the Teachers Union. I think it is the UNION leaders that are assholes in the current situation, not the teachers.

Oh yeah, and another good example of union corruption is the not that recent TDSB scandal where only UNION handymen were allowed to install pencil sharpeners... for about $1200 each IIRC.

Oh and here is another reason... corruption of the leaders seeking office etc

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...to-construction-union-official-says-1.1392572

 

[FAST]

Entitlement,...its a union thing,...

Would someone please chime in and explain why we do not need unions

Because work place safety rules are set and enforced by governments in Canada,...NOT by unions,...but I guess some would prefer a select few should be the only ones with work place rules.



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[nottyboi]

Hopefully people will spread the word through facebook, fuck those scumbags.

 

[lakeboy1]

Workers who are killed on the job in Canada die from workplace related accidents. In Qater the migrant workers, 1200 so far, have died as a result of horrible living conditions. No running water, 8 to a tiny room and 45 degree heat. The are not dying of the job they are dying of disease

 

[Aardvark154]

I believe six people involved in the building of the facilities for the Bejing Olympic Games died and that was considered high by the Chinese Authorities.

 

[yoker6]

This is sickening. How do you just play with people's lives like that.

 

[glamphotographer]

This is 21st century exploitation and slavery and FIFA (21st century mob) and Qatar gets away with it.

 

[SkyRider]

I believe six people involved in the building of the facilities for the Bejing Olympic Games died and that was considered high by the Chinese Authorities.

I think the Chinese used indigenous labor. Qatar uses imported laborers and treats them like slaves.

 

[LickRus]

Incredible!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ustrates-the-consequences-of-fifa-corruption/

more people will die then died on 911. What FILTHY scumbag country!!

They have no heart, they were trying to have a Guiness world record marathon and forced the migrant workers to run in flip flops.


Slaves Forced to Run Marathon Shoeless in Qatar

In Qatar, where at least one immigrant worker dies per day working to complete its World Cup infrastructure by 2022, workers were bused in to run a marathon in whatever clothes they had in order to break a Guinness World Record.

In an effort to break a Guinness World Record, a Qatari sports club reportedly bused in migrant workers and forced them to run in a state-sponsored “megamarathon” in Doha last Friday.

Many of the workers were said to have run the race in flip-flops and jeans and, according to Doha News, some laborers “tried to leave but were turned back and were yelled at that they need to stay and cross the line.”
According to the race’s official site, the marathon was created to illustrate a “decisive response to the campaign waged by the sector of envious haters on the success of Qatar to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and to their false allegations of persecution of workers and residents in our beloved country.”

Amnesty International has said that migrant workers face “rampant” and “severe” exploitation, including physical and sexual abuse, under Qatar’s “kafala” system, which ties migrant workers to their employer regardless of the work entailed. If the worker opts not to do the job, he or she is often stranded in the country without an “exit permit” that would allow him or her to pursue other work.

Nicholas McGeehan, a Qatar researcher at Human Rights Watch, also said that workers frequently forfeit their passport to their employer “immediately upon arrival in the country,” leaving them with no way to leave or make money in Qatar.

“I’m appalled, but not shocked,” McGeehan told The Daily Beast. “Forcing people to compete in an endurance event should raise eyebrows. [The Qatari government] has an insidious level of racial discrimination against migrant workers.”

Organizers say they had brought in observers from the Guinness Book of World Records for the event, as the race aimed to “enter Guinness World Records with the Largest Marathon in the world after it was confined to the United States of America.” The race needed 50,000 participants to achieve its goal.

The event failed to break the record. http://www.arabianbusiness.com/labo...nning-qatar-marathon-587454.html#.VRyokZTF8i7

 

[Yoga Face]

Well, I think the rate of workplace injuries in civilized countries like Canada is not that much different between large employers of unionized and non-unionized workers.

Oh and another reason we don't need them is because their latest leaders use their members as pawns in their own personal empire building and create strikes with far greater social costs and consequences like we are seeing with the Teachers Union. I think it is the UNION leaders that are assholes in the current situation, not the teachers.

Oh yeah, and another good example of union corruption is the not that recent TDSB scandal where only UNION handymen were allowed to install pencil sharpeners... for about $1200 each IIRC.

Oh and here is another reason... corruption of the leaders seeking office etc

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...to-construction-union-official-says-1.1392572

I do believe workers safety rights in Canada were forced by strikers

Canadas treatment of the Irish who built the canals and the Chinese who built the railway are far worse than Qatar

And, oh yes, Qatar is being built by Canadian firms who are getting rich from this disposable labor

They would bribe politicians into changing the safety laws and do the same to Canadian workers what they are doing in Qatar in a heartbeat if the unions were not around to stop them, they did it before laws were passed and unions were formed, they are doing it now in Qatar and around the entire third world, and it gets worse in a lot of countries, it is a curse for a country to have oil, for example, or any product that capitalism desires (think Chiquita banana and the united fruit company takeover of central America and the contra scandal) as only the elite get rich and peasant farm land is destroyed


I agree that unions are inefficient, so you complain, rightfully so, that unions are costing you tax money and drive up prices but you ignore the far more compelling issue which is the insanely unfair distribution of capital


Schlong, you are naive

 

[wilbur]

Because work place safety rules are set and enforced by governments in Canada,...NOT by unions,...but I guess some would prefer a select few should be the only ones with work place rules.
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The governments enforce a minimum level of working conditions and safety requirements. They may enforce the minimum wage, but nothing better.

Contrary to popular opinion, unions, typically the larger ones, do have safety divisions. Some unions even lobby the government in order to improve safety standards in that area of concern for their members.

Unions strive to improve conditions for their members. Pay and benefits is one aspect, and workplace safety is another.

In the US, union representation is down to around 17% of all workers. It used to be 2 to three times better 60 years ago. Now, the middle class is rapidly shrinking and in order to maintain their lifestyle, many have to resort to 2 or 3 McJobs.

The Middle Class in North America was the result of unionization back around 100 years ago. Higher wages also meant more consumption, and more consumption meant more production and more production meant more jobs.