Frontline: Cell Tower Deaths

[13Gigatons]

The companies make Billions and they can't train people, provide proper equipment, and provide decent and safe jobs. Always got to squeeze more.

PS: They only get paid $10 an hour to climb those towers.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cell-tower-deaths/

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[Pr0d1gy]

Welcome to the free market economy, where everything that isn't free isn't necessary!

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Worth it

 

[roguerower]

I'd get that job just so I could BASE jump off it after I was done.

 

[CPA]

First Amazon Distribution Centers, not cell towers. We need to make every job one which you sit at a desk for 8 hours.

 

[Ancalagon44]

Is it bad that I thought the title might have been referring to a tower defense game?

 

[dmcowen674]

Frontline: Cell Tower Deaths

The companies make Billions and they can't train people, provide proper equipment, and provide decent and safe jobs. Always got to squeeze more.

PS: They only get paid $10 an hour to climb those towers.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cell-tower-deaths/

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No health care, no vacation time.

It's the new America you people want.

You guys support the 1% so this is what you get.

 

[foghorn67]

First Amazon Distribution Centers, not cell towers. We need to make every job one which you sit at a desk for 8 hours.

I don't think this is comparable to an Amazon warehouse job. These guys climb towers. This used to be a decent job several years ago.
Please don't catch Spidey syndrome.

 

[soulcougher73]

No health care, no vacation time.

It's the new America you people want.

You guys support the 1% so this is what you get.

I will sadly have to agree with dmcowen for once. This will eventaully creep into all forms of work sooner or later.

 

[rudder]

No health care, no vacation time.

It's the new America you people want.

You guys support the 1% so this is what you get.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...ring-jobs-skilled-workers-manufacturing-plant

hmmm maybe if the $10/hour pole climber tried a little harder in school or was willing to move to where the jobs were.

 

[MarkXIX]

So, basically, people get negligent for money.

Call me when something new in human history comes out of this.

 

[_Rick_]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...ring-jobs-skilled-workers-manufacturing-plant

hmmm maybe if the $10/hour pole climber tried a little harder in school or was willing to move to where the jobs were.

But then, who will climb the poles, if everyone is too smart to?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally Posted by dmcowen674
No health care, no vacation time.

It's the new America you people want.

You guys support the 1% so this is what you get.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...ring-jobs-skilled-workers-manufacturing-plant

hmmm maybe if the $10/hour pole climber tried a little harder in school or was willing to move to where the jobs were.

Your hate for non-rich American duly noted.

 

[preslove]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...ring-jobs-skilled-workers-manufacturing-plant

hmmm maybe if the $10/hour pole climber tried a little harder in school or was willing to move to where the jobs were.

Someone has to do the work, you worthless fucking nihilist.

 

[JulesMaximus]

No health care, no vacation time.

It's the new America you people want.

You guys support the 1% so this is what you get.

x100

Let us now pray to the corporations.

 

[manimal]

Dont worry soon these jobs wont pay all soon. They will only provide the dignity of work.

 

[SillyOReilly]

Dont worry soon these jobs wont pay all soon. They will only provide the dignity of work.

Many will hope they get a bowl of rice and a mat to sleep on a floor.

 

[darkewaffle]

Higher costs = higher prices. You can't have your cake and eat it too. The world is obsessed with penny pinching (consumers and producers alike) and these are some of the repercussions.

 

[JulesMaximus]

That's a very powerful report. People are dying and OSHA can't even fine the companies who contract this work. There is no accountability by the big carriers who are contracting this work out and the people who do the actual work are getting screwed... to death.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Higher costs = higher prices. You can't have your cake and eat it too. The world is obsessed with penny pinching (consumers and producers alike) and these are some of the repercussions.

These are completely unacceptable repercussions.

 

[Ketchup]

I laughed when I read the title. Don't worry liberal ladies, some government agency or union will come along and protect these people, and make sure they make much more than the company can afford. Then the companies will go out of business and unemployment will go up. It's the new american way, don't you know.

 

[Phokus]

I laughed when I read the title. Don't worry liberal ladies, some government agency or union will come along and protect these people, and make sure they make much more than the company can afford. Then the companies will go out of business and unemployment will go up. It's the new american way, don't you know.

Yes, i'm sure AT&T and Verizon will 'go out of business' if they started paying these guys more than $10 an hour and actually mandated better safety equipment/procedures/training.

Conservatives.txt

You are the reason why this country is fucked and going to get even more fucked in the future.

 

[swanysto]

Why don't they just hire Mexicans for $5/hr. After all, they do all the jobs Americans don't want to do, right?

 

[darkewaffle]

These are completely unacceptable repercussions.

But are you (plural) willing to pay to do something about it?

 

[Phokus]

Conservatives pretty much long for the days when there were no safety regulations and little children were allowed to work long hours with dangerous equipment, losing life and limb.