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black07ss


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Date: Nov 28, 2012
History repeating itself
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It took 101 years but it did. I find it very disturbing reading about the fire in Bangladesh. Back on March 25, 1911 the same thing happened in New York City at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. From that point on the labor movement pushed even harder for laws to help protect workers safety and fight for a fair wage. It is very disturbing to me to see all the things that have been accomplished the last 100 years going down the drain! The 40 hour work week, 8 hours of work per day and anything more than that is payed at a higher rate, vacation and holiday time, healthcare, pension, breaks, and lunch all being lost and replaced with lower wage jobs where you are expected to work harder and get payed less. Do you see it too? Take a look around you. Has your vacation and sick time been cut over the years? How many of you take a coffee break anymore? How many even heard of a coffee break? How about lunch away from the desk or whatever it is you do? I see so many people eating at there desk and working. Over a period of time that too will be expected and lunch will be lost. How about the holidays. Remember when EVERYTHING was closed? Time was spent with the family, friends or just relaxing. Stores opening on Thanksgiving to me is just taking things one step further!! What is up with that? Don't people know how to enjoy their families and friends anymore so they need to go shopping? How about the people that have to work at these stores. They lose their family and friend time. 

Link to Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire March 25, 1911
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire



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I totally agree Bob, It's anything to make a buck these days! Heck, I didn't even take a vacation this year, everytime I tried, someone else had a day off, or there was a training class or something else came up. I did take four days off this year, but made them count!

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I understand what you are saying Bob, but when I look and read these stories, I think more along the lines of how lucky we are to have the jobs we have, lucky to be working in a country that has laws that protect us. So If I have to work through lunch and work a few extra hours and harder than the next guy to keep my job... that's fine by me. It's dog eat dog..LOL

As far as the fires in Bangladesh, that is tragic.. when I heard that story, I instantly thought of the Triangle shirt factory too. You know, being in the Textile instustry and working on 7th Ave, here in NY, I have learned all about this tragedy. Did you know, that there is a yearly event to memorialize the victoms of that fire? They burned because the owners locked the back doors to keep the Unions out and keep them from talking to the empoyees, so when the fire started they couldn't get out.

I guess it depends on your prospective, and I am gonna count my blessings on this one :)

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Sad thing is it sounds like the doors were also locked at that plant in Bangladesh. Kind of ironic how the news stopped reporting on it once they started saying they found cloths being made for Walmart and Disney. HMMM Disney being one of the six corporations that own the media

Today, six colossal media giants tower over all the rest. Much of the information in the chart below comes from mediaowners.com. The chart below reveals only a small fraction of the media outlets that these six behemoths actually own....

Time Warner

Home Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
TMZ
New Line Cinema
Time Warner Cable
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
TBS
TNT
America Online
MapQuest
Moviefone
Castle Rock
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People Magazine

Walt Disney

ABC Television Network
Disney Publishing
ESPN Inc.
Disney Channel
SOAPnet
A&E
Lifetime
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Buena Vista Games
Hyperion Books

Viacom

Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Comedy Central
Country Music Television (CMT)
Logo
MTV
MTV Canada
MTV2
Nick Magazine
Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon
Noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
VH1

News Corporation

Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
The New York Post
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Beliefnet
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Net
Fox Television Network
FX
My Network TV
MySpace
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
STAR World
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
Times of London
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
20th Century Fox Television
BSkyB
DIRECTV
The Wall Street Journal
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Interactive Media
FOXTEL
HarperCollins Publishers
The National Geographic Channel
National Rugby League
News Interactive
News Outdoor
Radio Veronica
ReganBooks
Sky Italia
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
STAR
Zondervan

CBS Corporation

CBS News
CBS Sports
CBS Television Network
CNET
Showtime
TV.com
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
CW Network (50% ownership)
Infinity Broadcasting
Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
Westwood One Radio Network

NBC Universal

Bravo
CNBC
NBC News
MSNBC
NBC Sports
NBC Television Network
Oxygen
SciFi Magazine
Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
Telemundo
USA Network
Weather Channel
Focus Features
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal Television Studio
Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
Trio
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Pictures
Universal Studio Home Video



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