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Subcontractor Tells Fukushima Workers To Hide Radiation Exposure

Posted by timothy on from the how-to-lie-with-statistics-in-a-big-way dept.

First time accepted submitter fredprado writes "Apparently at least one subcontractor hired to clean up the Fukushima site has been urging their workers to put their radiation detectors lined under lead shieldings. A diagram can be seen here. The authorities decided not to prosecute him, even after one employee presenting them recordings of him trying to talk the said employee into it."

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  1. Re:This is why we need more unions and more worker by jfengel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And how are they supposed to do that? Individual workers calling their Senators up on the phone, each one of them telling the Senator something slightly different from the last one? Senators don't take phone calls from workers. They take phone calls from executives.

    Actually, they don't take phone calls from either. They take phone calls from lobbyists, people with whom they have a relationship and who have worked with them before. Corporate management has plenty of money to hire them. Individual workers don't.

    They can, however, get together and pool their money to hire a lobbyist. We should make up a name for such a unified group of people.

  2. Doesn't work. by rsilvergun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really. It doesn't. Globalism Breaks Capitalism. Period. It's that simple. You are completing on the global stage. Your employer is not. You can't win. You can't keep up. They will import desperate workers from impoverished countries. You will compete with them for food and shelter. Automation makes you disposable and obsolete. You can't work elsewhere, because there are very few jobs (automation) and there are lots of people to do those jobs (globalism).

    Free market Capitalism is fundamentally broken. Adam Smith wasn't a futurist. He had no vision. Ayn Rand was just a little woman afraid of a nasty dictator. Get over your fear, and learn to face facts. Adam couldn't, Ayn couldn't. Can you?

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    1. Re:Doesn't work. by sjames · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's worth noting that Smith strongly advocated market regulation. He warned that inadequate or incompetent regulation of the market would lead to exactly the sorts of problems we're having now. He further warned against anything like corporate personhood as that would remove moral thinking from economic decisions.

      The so-called proponents of Smith's Capitalism are VERY selective about which parts they implement and 100% of his warnings have fallen on deaf ears. They are just as bad as the fundamentalist Jihadists who like to skip over all the bits about not killing 'people of the book'.

  3. Re:one good result: by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's ok to think the government would do a poor job at providing for our health

    but it's insane to think corporations would do a better job

    therefore, you choose government

    for example, those europeans with universal healthcare live longer than americans, and pay less for their healthcare

    because the american model is not about our health, it is about maximizing profit

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  4. Re:This is why we need more unions and more worker by artor3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is why we need more unions and more workers rights.

    and they should be able to use contractors and subcontractors to get out being liable.

    Actually, in the US, this kind of ridiculously dangerous behavior would be covered by OSHA laws.

    OSHA laws which only exist thanks to unions.