Exxon Mobil blows up a plant in the middle of this strike to prove our point. We have gone 30 years without a strike and now it's over health and safety. Clear evidence that this over arching need for more and more profits is deadly to the workers they don't care about.
BP in their Texas City, Texas explosion March 23rd 2005, even budgeted for how much they would pay for each worker death and factored in to determine what dangerous conditions they would fix and which they would leave alone. Out of four budget proposals, they picked the budget that made the most profits, even though they thought they would kill only 1 or 2 workers. They killed 15 instead and injured 6,000. The media to this day still reports BP's number of 100 or so injuries, but they settled with the 6,000 suits for injuries.
Corporations run our government. They have cut the budgets of all regulatory agencies until they cannot even do the job they are supposed to do. They are all headed by industry insiders that they had their politicians appoint. If we don't change how we elect our politicians to publicly funded elections, no campaign contributions and Super PACs, and ending this revolving door, we will surely perish from this earth!