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US Jobless Claims "Unexpectedly" Rise Again
Re: US Jobless Claims "Unexpectedly" Rise Again
by MarkJ » Tue 10 Aug 2010, 06:35:23
Generally due to government interference (OSHA) and unions. Not because employers decided to be nice.
Locally, safety increased substantially since most industry is fairly new and heavily automated.
The free market took out the dangerous players, or made them upgrade as they couldn't afford the cost of accidents, injuries, fires, explosions, mistakes, employee lawsuits, insurance, disability, downtime, lost customers, employee turnover, unproductive employees, toxic spills/cleanup, code compliance etc.
In the past, much of the safety issues in the mills, factories and tanneries were due to dangerous 1800s/Early 1900s buildings, unsafe building retrofits, ancient equipment, ancient tools and heavy reliance on human labor.
Laborers were much more dangerous back in the day as well. Many of the mill workers of the 80s wouldn't be hired today, or wouldn't last long due to pre-employment drug screening, background checks, physical assessments, aptitude tests, probationary period reviews and post employment labor/safety standards review.
Back in the 80s, we had substantially more injury prone older workers in our local workforce as well.
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Re: US Jobless Claims "Unexpectedly" Rise Again
by copious.abundance » Tue 10 Aug 2010, 21:12:26
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ou have failed miserably. When will you give it up?
He already has. Saying that the economy will be "sideways for the next 3 years".
LOL! I never said the economy would go sideways for the next 3 years, I said initial jobless claims would go sideways for the next couple years or so.
You aren't one for details, are you. Maybe a new pair of glasses and a dictionary would be of help.
Stuff for doomers to contemplate:
http://peakoil.com/forums/post1190117.html#p1190117
http://peakoil.com/forums/post1193930.html#p1193930
http://peakoil.com/forums/post1206767.html#p1206767
http://peakoil.com/forums/post1190117.html#p1190117
http://peakoil.com/forums/post1193930.html#p1193930
http://peakoil.com/forums/post1206767.html#p1206767
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