While clapping the rescue of the miners - please remember these points.

[TheBigotBasher]

The miners stuck underground are likely to be denied to be their wages.

http://www.care2.com/causes/human-rights/blog/trapped-chilean-miners-docked-pay-while-undeground/

The workers families are suing because of the failure of the mining company to meet the very minimum safety standards that they were already required to meet by court order.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/7966590/Families-of-trapped-Chilean-miners-to-sue-mining-firm.html

While the trapped miners have been underground, the other shift miners have not been paid and they have protested about being left with no pay.

http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/?date=2010-09-20



If the tv cameras of the World were not looking - there would not be a rescue.

Finally remember - this is the type of employment that a future Senator Paul or Senator O'Donnell would want.

[Xipe Totec]

1. And you know these facts how?

Psst! Links would help support your personal opinion.

:hi:

[TheBigotBasher]

4. Added.

The last two points are my opinion but there are many many other sources to back up the points I made. Google is a friend.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Thanks!

My deepest respects for taking the time.

[Canuckistanian]

2. O'Donnell has a policy on mining wages?

That's a new one to me.

[TheBigotBasher]

3. libertarian nut job to go in the senate.

Yep - get rid of employee safety rules.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Yeah, I guess that's true

She won't be friend of Labor, that's for sure.

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Even so, I will celebrate this rescue.

Many issues need to be resolved, but these men are literally returning to the land of the living. I am glad. This is good news, whatever the cause.

[Texasgal]

7. Oh GODAMMIT!

Can we not have a moment of JOY?

Jesus f'ing crist on a pogo stick!

These guys are being fucking saved right now...lay OFF!

[TheBigotBasher]

11. I said while clapping the rescue.

please remember those points.

I think it is important to remember that this is the fault of a company that failed to meet the very minimum safety standards that they were required to meet. I also think that it is important to remember the other miners who because of that legal failure are going without any pay and who therefore felt it necessary to take to the streets.

[Texasgal]

18. godamn... for anyone who may forgot?

ofcourse we know why they are there!

Can we atleast celebrate a moment of rescue?

[TheBigotBasher]

15. Of course we should forget the poor

employment standards that got them trapped in the first place and learn nothing from it.

[WolverineDG]

8. Let's get them out of the mine first

THEN start kicking ass & taking names on this other shit.

dg

[Tx4obama]

10. You're wrong. Their paychecks have been being deposited in the bank for them.

Accounts were set up for each of them and only they can access them.

[Contrary1]

12. I wouldn't worry too much about these miners:

This, plus what the above poster stated.

"Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Chile’s 33 trapped miners are preparing to swap their underground shelter for the international spotlight as offers from media and moviemakers are set to match their current annual wages.

Chile’s government has trained the men on handling the media frenzy after they’re pulled out from today. Classes were conducted over phone lines threaded through drill holes almost half a mile underground where they’ve been stranded since Aug. 5 when a tunnel caved in at the San Jose copper and gold mine.

Family members camping out in the Atacama desert have obtained lawyers and received book and film offers, said Arnoldo Plaza Vega, 46, whose cousin is among the men trapped inside the mine. For some, life after the rescue may be difficult to handle, said Ana Maria Aron, who heads a post-traumatic stress unit at Chile’s Catholic University.

“It’s hard to grasp how strange it is to come out of a black hole in the ground for weeks or months into this sort of media frenzy,” said Jeff Goodell, whose book about nine Pennsylvania miners trapped for 77 hours was a New York Times bestseller. “The shock of coming into this media spotlight is almost bigger than the shock of being trapped underground..."

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-12/trapped-miners-in-chile-prepare-for-book-movie-deals.html

[TheBigotBasher]

14. Agreed. There are however another 100 miners

who are now out of work and who were working in conditions that were even illegal in Chile. I do think that they need to be remembered.

[Contrary1]

16. I think I read somewhere that these other miners were being paid also...

I'll try to find a link.

[Catherina]

13. Massey Energy Upper Big Branch Mine disaster. 'nuff said. n/t

[TheBigotBasher]

17. I don't know what that skeleton like thing is

in the wall by the miners but it does look kind of creepy.