Thursday, September 9, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Opinion to the Chicago Tribune A dedication to employees
RE: A Dedication to the 9/11 employees, miners, gulf employees & industrial workers and workers everywhere!
To the Tribune newspaper journalists, editors and its company and its subsidiaries,
I read several Chicago newspapers everyday when I was first able to read and reading the Chicago Tribune was considered the #1 Paper in Chicago, a top drawer newspaper, not that the others weren't but the news coverage was more broad in content.
I was born & grew up in a Polish Blue Collar neighborhood in Chicago near north side, in the 1950's & 60's, where finally workers were receiving respect on the job and life for all, with more opportunity, better wages. full health benefits and pensions. That was the promise of the American Dream.. and thousands of communities were teeming and prospering with the promise of the "AMERICAN DREAM".
On the way in, were the days, were employers/bosses were actually starting to treat employees (like my parents & grandparents less than human) like human beings and not like chattel to be paid poorly, poor and unhealthy workplaces (factories were noted for abuse but so were many other corporations and companies) with a total lack of regard and now finally with dignity and respect!
I worked for companies like Montgomery Wards, Wrigley, Sears, Life Insurance companies and St. George Hospital to name some. Some of these companies are gone because of corporate cannibalism, all for a few to live the very high on the hog and self appointed entitlement of the great life. Really, it's all about being a sociopath and narcissistic.
I, along with millions was treated with not only respect but with safe & health work environments and where good work ethics and work experience was rewarded with awards, promotions and wage increases and now the opposite is true and we've been taken back to pre-civil war days where slavery and HMO health care (what workers are forced into now for medical benefits for working employees and medical care for injured workers) was the norm for slaves.
History is repeating itself in the worst of times and workers are making less, exposed to the worst of the worst with out regulations and a direct result of deregulation and a complete lack of oversight, coupled with a complete breach of ethics and cronyism between government and corporations. The Gulf disaster was inevitable, wasn't it all because profit is the only motive for corporations bottom line?
Add to the toxic mix, Superfund-brownfield sites, bio tech labs creating toxic molds, medicines, nanotechnology, gnomes,all for a few who will profit by investing via the Wall St. market but will harm and kill many?
What is the responsibility of CEO's and middle management for any of their culpability. It certainly is not with law enforcement because it is not only a part of this but because they and the judicial branch are bias towards corporations with contributions made directly to them, to carry out the persecutions of the innocently injured made by the same corporations .
I would like to know what happened in the interim from the 60's, to current where profit became the only motive and workers/employees lives have become totally unnecessary!.
Who else benefits but the employers but also many attorneys and doctors who live off the maimed lives or dead bodies of workers? This has become a business of of astronomical proportions. where if it were not for injured workers, insurance companies and employers could not share in dead man , peasant and or key man policies that are funding CEO's pensions.
How inhumane is that and what kind of corporate owners do we have, barbarians, where we have become so uncivilized, that workers are not considered humans and just an means to an end?
So, was the "American Dream" just that, a dream that was deliberately turned into and evolved in to a never ending nightmare for employees?
Now, the proof is where now a new reality program called the "Under Cover Bosses" becomes entertainment and a reality check for CEO's!
I have the temerity to see not only more news articles from The Tribune, like reporting on the popcorn chemical injuries but to start now, the broad reporting on the real problems of the lack of accountability and responsiblity of corporations on the inhumanity on their employees.
To the Tribune newspaper journalists, editors and its company and its subsidiaries,
I read several Chicago newspapers everyday when I was first able to read and reading the Chicago Tribune was considered the #1 Paper in Chicago, a top drawer newspaper, not that the others weren't but the news coverage was more broad in content.
I was born & grew up in a Polish Blue Collar neighborhood in Chicago near north side, in the 1950's & 60's, where finally workers were receiving respect on the job and life for all, with more opportunity, better wages. full health benefits and pensions. That was the promise of the American Dream.. and thousands of communities were teeming and prospering with the promise of the "AMERICAN DREAM".
On the way in, were the days, were employers/bosses were actually starting to treat employees (like my parents & grandparents less than human) like human beings and not like chattel to be paid poorly, poor and unhealthy workplaces (factories were noted for abuse but so were many other corporations and companies) with a total lack of regard and now finally with dignity and respect!
I worked for companies like Montgomery Wards, Wrigley, Sears, Life Insurance companies and St. George Hospital to name some. Some of these companies are gone because of corporate cannibalism, all for a few to live the very high on the hog and self appointed entitlement of the great life. Really, it's all about being a sociopath and narcissistic.
I, along with millions was treated with not only respect but with safe & health work environments and where good work ethics and work experience was rewarded with awards, promotions and wage increases and now the opposite is true and we've been taken back to pre-civil war days where slavery and HMO health care (what workers are forced into now for medical benefits for working employees and medical care for injured workers) was the norm for slaves.
History is repeating itself in the worst of times and workers are making less, exposed to the worst of the worst with out regulations and a direct result of deregulation and a complete lack of oversight, coupled with a complete breach of ethics and cronyism between government and corporations. The Gulf disaster was inevitable, wasn't it all because profit is the only motive for corporations bottom line?
Add to the toxic mix, Superfund-brownfield sites, bio tech labs creating toxic molds, medicines, nanotechnology, gnomes,all for a few who will profit by investing via the Wall St. market but will harm and kill many?
What is the responsibility of CEO's and middle management for any of their culpability. It certainly is not with law enforcement because it is not only a part of this but because they and the judicial branch are bias towards corporations with contributions made directly to them, to carry out the persecutions of the innocently injured made by the same corporations .
I would like to know what happened in the interim from the 60's, to current where profit became the only motive and workers/employees lives have become totally unnecessary!.
Who else benefits but the employers but also many attorneys and doctors who live off the maimed lives or dead bodies of workers? This has become a business of of astronomical proportions. where if it were not for injured workers, insurance companies and employers could not share in dead man , peasant and or key man policies that are funding CEO's pensions.
How inhumane is that and what kind of corporate owners do we have, barbarians, where we have become so uncivilized, that workers are not considered humans and just an means to an end?
So, was the "American Dream" just that, a dream that was deliberately turned into and evolved in to a never ending nightmare for employees?
Now, the proof is where now a new reality program called the "Under Cover Bosses" becomes entertainment and a reality check for CEO's!
I have the temerity to see not only more news articles from The Tribune, like reporting on the popcorn chemical injuries but to start now, the broad reporting on the real problems of the lack of accountability and responsiblity of corporations on the inhumanity on their employees.
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