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Investigators trying to determine what caused Wednesday's horrific elevator death in a Madison Avenue building are focusing on a maintenance company that was working on the elevator hours before the malfunction. A Buildings Department spokesman says the company, Transel Elevator, had sent an unlicensed worker to do electrical work that morning. Why was the worker unlicensed? Well, as you may or may not know, you DON'T NEED A LICENSE TO WORK ON AN ELEVATOR IN NYC. As one union rep tells the Times, "Anyone with a set of tools can work on an elevator." Food for thought as you're climbing the stairs today.
An elevator expert told us yesterday that of the three possible causes of Hart's death, human error was number one. Also yesterday, elevator repairman Jason Jordan was charged with reckless endangerment after a woman was nearly killed in an elevator he had been working on. Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes alleges that Jordan "disregarded industry standards and disabled the safety switch that prevents the elevator from moving when the doors are open."
Montana
You can keep your future, it sounds like you just rolled over and died with it. I like mine much better. The one where enough citizens wake up to the fact that the only people losing money right now are the middle class. When we finally decide that the "free trade" fantasies we have been sold are nothing more than a get rich quick scheme for international corporations. The future where people wake up and replace all those cretins in Washington that are the corporate toadies with a government OF THE PEOPLE again. That future will be much better than the hell you want to send us to.
Oh, i own a truck made (except the parts that were made in foreign countries and imported for "free") in this country. So does my wife and all my kids.
olaru12
To all the right wing union haters out there....
Don't watch TV or go to movies because they are all union shop.
Even your holy spokesman [on loan from God] Rush Limbaugh is a member of a union.
www.alternet.org...'reilly_are_afl-cio_union-affiliated_me mbers
edit on 12-2-2014 by olaru12 because: (no reason given)
Montana
My unions CREATED Detroit. Your corporate toadies killed it.
The citizens of this country may have been stupid for as long as YOU can remember but they weren't always stupid or we wouldn't have a country in the first place, would we? There is an enormous upside to the USA right now, if people like you will just stop giving in to your "inevitable" future. It will take a lot of work and a LOT more courage than I am seeing from the majority of people currently, but it is there and we can have it if we want it. Or we can listen to what you are saying and get in the food line.
edit on 2/12/2014 by Montana because: add an ing
OrdoAdChao
doubletap
Just someone who isnt a loser that needs to pay others to threaten businesses in order to keep my job. Sadly degenerate union bottom feeders cannot say the same. I dont need to work 17 hours a day to make a very decent income either
I hate to "doubletap", but the bold text in your quote screams of a business owner only interested in lining their own pockets. Union members demand that the collective are taken care of. It is obvious that you think as an 'individualist' who has a conceded point of view of reality; one that is so separate from the true human condition that you literally think you've done it all. Carry on, uberman. Don't consider the flies at the marketplace. Swat them! Don't you know your own advice? Why do you even bother to come amongst us wretched and attempt to enlighten our sheepish views?edit on 12-2-2014 by OrdoAdChao because: Grammar and things
Hoosierdaddy71
olaru12
To all the right wing union haters out there....
Don't watch TV or go to movies because they are all union shop.
Even your holy spokesman [on loan from God] Rush Limbaugh is a member of a union.
www.alternet.org...'reilly_are_afl-cio_union-affiliated_mem bers
edit on 12-2-2014 by olaru12 because: (no reason given)
Here is a list of movies filmed in Canada to avoid unions.
dadsdelights.blogspot.com...
Just saying they are not all made in union shops.
Montana
My unions CREATED Detroit. Your corporate toadies killed it.
The citizens of this country may have been stupid for as long as YOU can remember but they weren't always stupid or we wouldn't have a country in the first place, would we? There is an enormous upside to the USA right now, if people like you will just stop giving in to your "inevitable" future. It will take a lot of work and a LOT more courage than I am seeing from the majority of people currently, but it is there and we can have it if we want it. Or we can listen to what you are saying and get in the food line.
edit on 2/12/2014 by Montana because: add an ing