Dozens Dead After 'Most Severe Tornado Event In Kentucky's History'

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Pillager

- 2021-12-15

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-tornado-factory-work ers-threatened-firing-left-tornado-employ-rcna8581

'Latavia Halliburton, said she witnessed workers’ being threatened with termination if they left.

“Some people asked if they could leave,” but managers told them they would be fired if they did, she said.

The first tornado warning passed without any damage, but several hours later, another warning was issued. Once the second tornado siren sounded sometime after 9 p.m. Friday, Conder and a group of others approached three managers asking to go home.

“‘You can’t leave. You can’t leave. You have to stay here,’” Conder said the managers told her. “The situation was bad. Everyone was uncomfortable.”

Mark Saxton, 37, a forklift operator, said that he would have preferred to leave but that he wasn’t given the option.

“That’s the thing. We should have been able to leave,” Saxton said. “The first warning came, and they just had us go in the hallway. After the warning, they had us go back to work. They never offered us to go home.”'

Binro the Heretic

- 2021-12-15

If the families of the victims try to sue the factory or the parent company, I'm sure the law will just say nobody forced them to stay.

That's why they should just hunt down the managers and beat them with shovels until they stop making sounds.

Pillager - 2021-12-15

https://www.wave3.com/2021/12/16/multiple-mayfield-candle-factory- workers-hire-lawyers/

"Lawyers they hired said they have evidence backing up the allegations that employees were not allowed to leave Friday night as storms approached.

A spokesperson representing the candle factory has refuted the claims that workers could not go home before a tornado destroyed it, killing eight people.

But the lawyers said they’ve got hard evidence the employees are telling the truth"

Blood in the water.

SolRo - 2021-12-15

At the end of the day it’s a good thing money brings people back to life

Binro the Heretic - 2021-12-16

Not the point.

The point is to make the risk of endangering employees outweigh the rewards.

glasseye

- 2021-12-17

Most weren't even employees; they were "independent contractors."

This is a modern triangle shirtwaist fire, but nobody cares.

Binro the Heretic - 2021-12-17

And some were prison labor.

They survived, but the guard didn't/

GongWise - 2021-12-16

If only they had been vaccinated, this could have prevented.

Binro the Heretic - 2021-12-16

Eat shit and die of COVID.

GongWise - 2021-12-16

That's going to be increasingly hard to do what with receding mortality rates.

Gmork - 2021-12-16

thanks to the vaccine.

Gmork

- 2021-12-16

tots and pears

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