Bush Administration Policies Making Work Less Safe布什政府的政策，使工作更不安全
By通过 Leo W. Gerard利奥瓦特热拉尔 | In the heart of Pennsylvania, while the media still relentlessly plagued Senators Obama and Clinton about flag pins and memory lapses just before the primary, a machine at an ArcelorMital plant in Steelton crushed Roger H. Prichard to death. |在心脏，宾夕法尼亚州，而媒体依然无情地困扰参议员奥巴马和克林顿总统关于国旗旗杆的记忆失误，只是前小学，一台机器在一arcelormital植物在斯蒂尔顿粉碎，陆观每小时prichard死刑。 He was 58.他是58 。
It was April 18, three days before the Pennsylvania primary.这是4月18日， 3天前宾夕法尼亚州的小学。 It occurred just five days after piping crushed Jaren T. Hoover to death at the Dura-Bond Pipe factory, also in Steelton.它发生在五天后，管涌粉碎jaren汤匙，胡佛死在硬脑膜-债券管的工厂，也是在斯蒂尔顿。 He was 19.他是19 。
Life went on.生活中去。 Jaren’s father, a Pennsylvania common pleas judge, found dozens of his son’s friends at the funeral, mourning, and doing what kids do now, which is post memorials on MySpace. jaren的父亲，宾夕法尼亚州的共同请求法官，发现几十个，他的儿子的朋友的葬礼，悼念，并做孩子们现在要做的，这是邮政纪念馆在MySpace上。 Roger Prichard’s wife told a local reporter that her husband was a good father and husband and loving person, before she was too overcome to continue speaking.陆观prichard的妻子告诉当地记者，她的丈夫是一个很好的父亲和丈夫，爱的人，之前她也克服继续发言。 His grandchildren will never get to know him.他的孙子们绝不会去了解他。
As the presidential candidates are repeatedly forced to focus on the frivolous — whether Hillary faked crying or laughed too loud or whether Obama once served on a board of directors with an unsavory character — real issues like federal enforcement of workplace safety are completely ignored.作为总统候选人是一再被迫集中于无聊的-无论是希拉里伪造哭或笑太大了，还是奥巴马曾服务于董事局一u nsavory性格-真正的问题一样，联邦执法工作场所的安全是完全被忽略。
Monday, April 28, however, is one day set aside to concentrate on saving workers’ lives.周一， 4月28日，不过，一天拨出集中于节省工人的生命。 It is Workers Memorial Day.这是工人的阵亡将士纪念日。 It is an occasion on which we mourn the dead and strive for better conditions for the living.这是一个场合上，我们悼念死者，并争取更好的条件的生活。
Under the Bush Administration, this has been nothing but a struggle.根据布什政府，这一直是只不过是一个斗争。
Here’sa telling statistic: the number of workplace deaths increased from 2005 to 2006, the last full year for which figures are available.以下是告诉统计：有多少工作场所的死亡人数增加，从2005年到2006年，去年全年，其中数字可查。 By 106. 106 。 The total for 2005 was 5,734 dead in the US The next year, it rose to 5,840.总数为2005年的5734人死亡，在美国在未来一年，上升到5840 。
During the six years of the Bush administration for which there are statistics, the number of deaths rose four times.在六年的布什政府，其中有统计，死亡人数上升4倍。 The deaths climbed so high from 2003 to 2004 that the rate actually increased, the first time that has occurred — during either a Republican or a Democratic administration — since 1970 when Congress passed the act creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to improve workplace safety.死亡爬上那么高，从2003年到2004年，该利率实际上增加了，还是第一次发生了-在无论是共和党或民主党政府-自1 9 70年以来，当国会通过该法案创造了职业安全和健康管理局（奥沙），以改善工作场所的安全。
Each day in 2006, 16 workers died on the job.每一天在2006年， 16工人死亡，对就业。 This was not from heart attacks or strokes.这是不是从心脏病发作或中风。 This was from traumatic workplace injuries — because they suffocated when pits they were digging collapsed with sides not properly shored up, or because they plummeted from construction sites lacking safety gear to stop the fall, or because dust that should not have been accumulating in the factory air exploded.这是由外伤性工作场所受伤-因为他们窒息，当他们被坑挖倒塌与双方没有妥善增强了，或是因为它们大幅下跌，从建筑地盘缺乏安全齿轮停止下降，或因粉尘不应该已经积累了在工厂空中爆炸。
Workplace safety has the same problem as car safety.工作场所的安全也有同样的问题，作为汽车安全。 No one much pays attention to individuals like Jaren T. Hoover and Roger H. Prichard, just like they don’t pay much attention to single car accidents killing a person here and there on the highway.没有人多注重个人一样， jaren汤匙，胡佛和Roger每小时prichard ，就像他们不重视单一车祸杀害一个人在这里和那里在高速公路上。 The public does notice, however, when a plane crashes or when a crane topples over in Manhattan, killing six construction workers all at once, or when a disaster in a mine in West Virginia suffocates 12 Sago workers.市民是否通知，然而，当飞机坠毁或者当一个起重机topples超过在曼哈顿，炸死6名建筑工人全部一次，或者当一个灾难，在一个没有地雷的西弗吉尼亚州窒息12萨戈工人。
Unfortunately, the vast majority of deaths occur one-by-one, and so, in the resulting lack of public outrage and uproar afterward, the Bush Administration has, over the past seven years, managed to de-fund OSHA, the agency responsible for keeping workers safe and dismantle its regulation structure.不幸的是，绝大多数的死亡发生在一个一个，所以，在导致缺乏公众的愤怒和哗然，随后，布什政府已，在过去七年，管理，以德-基金职业安全与卫生署，该机构负责保持工人的安全和拆除其规管架构。
Since George W. Bush took office and decided that a policy of government and business cooperating like good ‘ole boys to enforce rules should replace the former inspection structure, OSHA’s budget has been cut by $25 million and its staff by nearly 200 positions.自布什政府上台办公室，并决定政策的政府和商界合作，像良好』的OLE男孩执行规则应取代前检查结构，职业安全与卫生署的预算已经削减了2500万美元和其工作人员由近200个职位。
A report by the AFL-CIO Safety and Health Office, called, “Death on the Job, The Toll of Neglect” calculates that with OSHA’s current number of inspectors, it would take the agency 133 years to examine each workplace under its jurisdiction just once.一份报告，由劳联-产联的安全和健康办公室，所谓的“死亡对就业，收费的忽视”的计算，与职业安全与卫生署目前的督察人数，它将采取机构1 33年才能逐一研究工作在其管辖下的只有一次。 So don’t expect OSHA to show up to check your employer real soon, no matter how bad things are.因此，不要指望奥沙显示，以检查您的雇主真正的很快，无论多么坏的事情。
The report puts the situation this way: “When it comes to job safety enforcement and coverage, it is clear that OSHA lacks sufficient resources to protect workers adequately.”该报告提出的情况，这样说： “当谈到工作安全执法和覆盖面，这是明确表示，职业安全与卫生署缺乏足够的资源来保护工人的充分” 。
Well, surely then, when something happens, like a workplace crushing death, OSHA responds by smacking down the recalcitrant employer with a big fine to get them in line, right?以及，当然，然后，当有事，就像一个工作场所的破碎死亡，职业安全与卫生署回应smacking下来，桀骜不驯的雇主与一个大的罚款，让他们在路线，对不对？ Wrong.错误的。
In 2007, serious violations of the act — an infraction is deemed serious if it poses a substantial probability of death or major physical harm — carried an average fine of $909.在2007年，严重违反该法律的行为-一违规行为被认为是严重的，如果它构成了实质性的概率死亡或重大身体伤害-进行平均罚款90 9美元。
For a fatality, the average penalty was $10,133.一个死亡，平均刑罚是10133美元。 And that number is unusually high.这个数字是异常的高。 In the previous four years, the fines averaged $6,100.在过去的四年，罚款额平均6100美元。 The AFL-CIO report authors expect the 2007 number to shrink after companies successfully appeal larger fines levied against them.该劳联-产联的报告作者预计2 007年编号，以收缩后，公司成功上诉较大的罚款，征收对付他们。
Barring good use of inspections and fines, there’s another enforcement tool that could keep workers safe.禁止利用好检查和罚款，还有一个执法的工具，可以维持工人的安全。 That would be criminally prosecuting employers whose engage in egregious behavior, like removing or disabling safety devices on dangerous equipment.这将是刑事检控雇主，其从事在恶劣的行为，如移除或停用安全装置，对危险设备。
In Canada, workers will toll a bell during their Workers Memorial Day commemorations for Steve L’Ecuyer, a 23-year-old crushed to death by a machine after his employer, Transpave, Inc. deliberately disabled a safety device intended to prevent such an accident.在加拿大，工人将收费钟期间，他们的工人阵亡将士纪念日的纪念活动，为史蒂夫l' ecuyer ，一个23岁的压死由一台机器后，他的雇主， transpave ，公司故意残疾人士的安全装置以防止这些一意外。 There, Transpave was found criminally negligent and fined $110,000.在那里， transpave被发现刑事责任的疏忽而被定罪及罚款十一点○○○万美元。
Here, the Department of Labor referred ten cases to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution in 2007.在这里，该部劳动提到一〇案件向司法部进行刑事起诉在2007年。 The number is limited because the kinds of cases are restricted under current US law.数目是有限的，因为该种情况下是受限制下，目前的美国法律。 They may only be instances in which Labor found that an employer’s willful violation of regulation resulted in a worker’s death or where false statements were made.他们可能只是个实例中，劳动力发现，有一个雇主的意志，违反规例，导致一名工人死亡，或虚假陈述发了言。 If there’sa conviction, the penalties are also limited — a maximum of six months in jail.如果有定罪，刑罚也只限于-最长为6个月的监禁。
Even so, the Justice Department has taken action on none of the referred cases.即便如此，美国司法部已采取行动，就没有转介的个案。
Not one.没有一个。
No wonder 106 more people failed to come home from work in 2006 than in 2005.怪不得106更多的人没有回家，从工作在2006年比2005年。
Work is less safe.工作是更不安全。 Monday is the day to protest that.周一是天，以抗议。 It is the day to demand safety in the names of Roger H. Prichard and Jaren T. Hoover and all of the others who did not come home.这是一天的需求，在安全的名称，陆观每小时prichard和jaren汤匙，胡佛公司和所有的其他人谁没有回家。
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