@MorePerfectUS:
This is unforgivable.
Basel Musharbash@musharbash_b Oct 17, 2024:
What a fucking disgrace of a man
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS Oct 4, 2024:
The CEO of Impact Plastics, where six workers died in the Hurricane Helene floods, has released a video. Instead of taking accountability he says: “employees were told to leave the plant at least 45 minutes before the gigantic force of the flood hit the industrial park.”
Who Is Gerald O’Connor: CEO Allegedly Abandoned Workers Who Drowned After Demanding They Meet Deadlines During Hurricane Helene by Andrea Tode, Oct 19, 2024, MSN
Gerald O’Connor, the CEO of Impact Plastics, is facing severe allegations following the deaths of factory workers during Hurricane Helene. According to reports, O’Connor allegedly abandoned his employees during the storm, ordering them to stay behind and meet production deadlines, a decision that led to the tragic drowning of several workers. As legal proceedings unfold, O’Connor’s actions have come under intense scrutiny, with the families of those who died seeking justice.
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A Survivor’s Testimony: “We Shouldn’t Have Been There”
Robert Jarvis, one of the surviving employees, provided a harrowing account of the events leading up to the disaster. In an interview with local news outlet CBS News, Jarvis described the confusion and panic that ensued as the floodwaters rose. He recalled being told by a superior that they could not leave until O’Connor gave the order. When that order finally came, it was too late—the water had already flooded the area, leaving the workers with no way out.
“We had one way in and one way out. When we were told that we could leave, the one way out was blocked off,” Jarvis explained. He narrowly escaped the rising waters by hitching a ride with a few other employees in a 4×4 vehicle. Others, however, were not as fortunate. Jarvis expressed his frustration and grief, stating, “It hurts knowing they didn’t make it, and I did. […] We shouldn’t have been there; none of us should’ve been there.”
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I’ve been horrified all my life how hideously humans treat other humans (and other species and the earth), and more horrified by how workers are treated by the very humans that get rich off their labours. The coal (e.g. Gina Rinehart), oil and gas industry rich are some of the nastiest humans around – in companies (e.g. Encana’s head cheese, Gwyn Morgan, when the company illegally frac’d Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers), their self regulators (e.g. AER’s head scammer Gerry Protti and Jim Ellis) and their servant politicians (e.g. Steve Harper, Ralph Klein, Pierre Picklehead aka Poilievre, Blaine Higgs, Danielle Smith, Doug Ford, John Horgan, Jason Kenney).