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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExclusive: “Fox and Friends” poster child accused of bullying employees over safety risks
Fox held this company up as a victim of Obama's pro-union bullying but workers say network's got it backwardsJOSH EIDELSON
A janitorial company painted by Fox and Friends as the victim of attempted pro-union government coercion has in fact been coercing its own employees to hide safety risks from the government, employees charged to Salon.
I felt this wasnt good, to have to lie, janitor Ana Parada told Salon in Spanish. Because I wanted someone to know what was happening.
Paradas employer, the Texas-based Professional Janitorial Services, was praised on last weeks Fox and Friends by Fox legal expert Peter Johnson for defying what he suggested could be a government protection racket. After host Steve Doocy asked Is the government quietly blackmailing companies to unionize?, Johnson asked if we have a situation in this country now where big federal government is putting its arm around the Service Employees International Union, to say, Hey, this is a pretty good union here. Maybe you should hook up with these folks and if you dont hook up with these folks, non-union business, maybe OSHAs going to be coming down your smoke stacks big time.
At issue in Foxs outrage segment and stories about PJS in National Review and the Daily Caller is a year-old letter issued by an OSHA official to a health and safety specialist from the United Steelworkers union, who had asked whether workers alleging safety issues in a non-union workplace could designate someone from a union to participate in an OSHA investigation as a personal representative, or as walkaround representative who accompanies an inspector on a workplace visit.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/03/31/exclusive_fox_and_friends_poster_child_accused_of_bullying_employees_over_safety_risks/
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Exclusive: “Fox and Friends” poster child accused of bullying employees over safety risks (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2014
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(2,086 posts)1. K&R n/t
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(50,983 posts)2. Fox lies again! Imagine that.
Assholes. They never tell the truth. They mislead their army of dummies.