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A Captured Agency? The Airlines, Trucking And OSHA With Fired OSHA Investigator Dar

by Labor Video Project
This interview is of fired OSHA investigator and lawyer Darrell Whitman who looks at how the biggest transportation companies in the US like FedEx and Lockheed have flagrantly violated health and safety rules along with retaliation against whistleblowers and gotten away with it by the failure of OSHA to enforce the rules protecting health and safety whistleblowers. This threatens these whistleblowers and the public who is being put in deadly danger
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Has OSHA become a captured agency by the companies it is supposed to regulate? Former Federal OSHA investigator and lawyer Darrell Whitman looks at how the agency has stood up to the biggest companies in the airline and trucking industry. He also talks about how the industry controls the agency so it will not hold them accountable to OSHA and health and safety regulations and the affects of privatization and outsourcing of Federal jobs by privateers.
He looks at FedEx, Lockheed and other companies that are flagrantly violating the health and safety rights of workers and also threatening the health and safety of the public.
This interview was done in February 2015. On May 5, 2015 Whitman was fired by the Agency management and he and the whistleblowers he was trying to defend after receiving merit recommendations are still fighting for justice.
For more information:
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww6-2-15-osha-lawyer-darrell-whitman-interviewed-part-1
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww6-9-15-osha-lawyer-darrell-whitman-interviewed-part-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQiB7bGHFas
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/episodes/xiptmz/february-26–2015—olivia-wilde
http://www.dailycensored.com/ohsagate/
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org
§FedEx CEO Frederick Smith
by Labor Video Project
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Darrell Whitman accuses the FedEx corporation of systemic corruption and flagrant violations of health and safety regulations along with retaliation against OSHA whistleblowers. According to Whitman they operate above the law and the OSHA management allow them to violate the health and safety retaliation protection laws.
§Privatization For Profit Lockheed Martin
by Labor Video Project
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Lockheed Martin pushed to privatize and outsource weather prediction for all civilian pilots in the US. They then have cutback proper weather services to increase their profits.
§FedEx mechanics at LAX Made Complaints
by Labor Video Project
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Five FedEx mechanics at LAX made health and safety complaints about the protection of the planes and FedEx bosses retaliated against the workers. OSHA management put the public in harm's way by refusing to protect these workers.
§Walmart Crashes Into School Bus
by Labor Video Project
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A Walmart truck crashed into a school bus near Eureka. Many drivers do not have proper rest periods and they are forced to work such long hours that they become a hazard to themselves and the public on the roads.
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