BP is keeping the workers in fenced areas and not allowing them to leave for free time?

alphafemale

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:25 PM
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BP is keeping the workers in fenced areas and not allowing them to leave for free time?

Or speak to the media?

They are forced to sleep something like 50 to a trailer in 3 stack bunk-beds?

Seriously...wtf.

I thought we fought a war to free ourselves from being British serfs quite a few years back.

Seriously...wtf.

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davidinalameda

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:25 PM
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1. link por favor?

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alphafemale

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:40 PM
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5. It was on cnn this morning

Don't really have a link

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Angry Dragon

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:33 PM
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2. I am with number uno

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chill_wind

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:35 PM
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3. Hadn't read that, but it reminded me of the "Martin Quarters" flotel

Edited on Fri Jun-11-10 09:38 PM by chill_wind

described shortly back-- each worker gets 30 square feet of space.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9G2FCT80

They were still unoccupied when the story was written June 1.

The gag on speaking to media has been widely reported, OTOH.

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HipChick

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:00 PM
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9. It's pretty normal for a corporation to ask their employee's not to

talk to the media..

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alphafemale

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:17 PM
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10. But to basically imprison them???

You shall NOT go out of our contained area.

They are probably paying basically nothing too. And making people sign off on any future health issues involved with cleaning up their toxic shit.

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lonestarnot

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:23 PM
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12. hmmmf. They fucked with American stuff. They shall pay American price. Liveable wage, housing

(not captivity) and workers should form a fucking union.

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chill_wind

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:51 PM
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16. Especially when you're trying to limit your exposure to litigation

on the scale BP's facing. It's actually gone a bit beyond that, though, with the Grand Isle PR stunt as example. Locally elected parish and responsible safety officials complained on that day that they would not even divulge to them who (what subcontractor) had hired and sent them.

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madrchsod

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:36 PM
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4. according to reports yes but what is worse..

us troops are being used by BP for security and the suppression of the free press and the free speech of the workers.

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alphafemale

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:45 PM
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6. It is really weird.

I think maybe "the fifth column" is finally starting to get pissed enough to start digging for facts rather than the spoon fed BS.

gawd to have real journalism again

...sigh

It's not going to happen.

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Hissyspit

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:31 PM
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14. +1

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Dunedain

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:33 PM
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15. Isn't it the Fourth Estate?

Unless I'm being sardonically impaired.

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Skink

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:51 PM
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7. In the 50's the British forced Iranian oil workers to live in similar conditions.

The book All The Shahs Men covers this in livid detail.

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lonestarnot

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:24 PM
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13. UNION!

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Catherina

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:52 PM
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8. Rec'd but still 0 n/t

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doc03

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Fri Jun-11-10 10:19 PM
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11. Oh come on yesterday BP workers were staying in luxury hotels

and working about 1 hour a day.

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chill_wind

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Fri Jun-11-10 11:00 PM
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17. Some of the best bits of reporting

on the workers' conditions have come from Mac McClelland at Mother Jones, IMHO. A couple have talked to her at a couple points, despite prohibitions.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8404009

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8482979

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