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Take the Safety of Hardworking Miners Seriously!
Target: Richard Stickler, MSHA Assistant SecretarySponsored by: American Rights at Work
Recently released reports uncovered a huge failure at the federal agency in charge of mine safety.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) failed to fine more than 4,000 safety & health violations over the last six years for mines that broke regulations.
Richard Stickler, the man responsible for mine safety in this country, used to be a coal mining manager and executive. President Bush twice bypassed the Senate to appoint Stickler, despite loud protests from anyone familiar with his egregiously anti-safety record.
It's time the safety of America's workers came first! Sign the letter to Mr. Stickler below and add your ideas on how he can do his job.
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We signed the “Take the Safety of Hardworking Miners Seriously!” petition!
# 200:
5:05 am PST, Feb 22,
Steve Amraen, Illinois
# 199:
4:25 am PST, Feb 22,
Cindy Bushway, Florida
# 198:
4:19 am PST, Feb 22,
Roxanne Marriott, Nebraska
# 197:
3:52 am PST, Feb 22,
Kathleen Cole, Ohio
# 196:
2:58 am PST, Feb 22,
Muriel Graham, United Kingdom
# 195:
2:47 am PST, Feb 22,
Franca Grasselli, Italy
# 194:
2:12 am PST, Feb 22,
Victoria Mary Stong / Community Activist, New York
It's a no-brainer that our wonderful, very hardworking Miners who risk their lives every day deserve all the protections they can get. It's horrible how we've been losing so many Miners because their money-hungry, almighty-dollar grubbing bosses could care less that they have loads of violations that greatly jeopardizes the Miners lives. My heart was breaking every day when they were fighting to get those Utah Miners. I'm so, so angry they were not rescued and that a rescuing Miner did die because there bosses just want to get away with as much as they can for as long as they can until it becomes a full-blown issue like it did and MINORS DIED NEEDLESSLY! With all due respect to the owners of Mines, I think it's extremely important that the government steps up and creates SIGNIFICANT laws that will protect our brave Miners! MY SYMPATHY'S GO OUT TO ALL THOSE THAT LOST FAMILY MEMBERS IN THESE DANGEROUS MINES THAT ARE NOT KEPT UP TO SAFETY STANDARDS. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. MAY YOU ALL GET JUSTICE FOR THE OWNERS THAT NEGLECTED TO FOLLOW FEDERAL SAFETY LAWS FOR DANGEROUS MINES.
It's a no-brainer that our wonderful, very hardworking Miners who risk their lives every day deserve all the protections they can get. It's horrible how we've been losing so many Miners because their money-hungry, almighty-dollar grubbing bosses could care less that they have loads of violations that greatly jeopardizes the Miners lives. My heart was breaking every day when they were fighting to get those Utah Miners. I'm so, so angry they were not rescued and that a rescuing Miner did die because there bosses just want to get away with as much as they can for as long as they can until it becomes a full-blown issue like it did and MINORS DIED NEEDLESSLY! With all due respect to the owners of Mines, I think it's extremely important that the government steps up and creates SIGNIFICANT laws that will protect our brave Miners! MY SYMPATHY'S GO OUT TO ALL THOSE THAT LOST FAMILY MEMBERS IN THESE DANGEROUS MINES THAT ARE NOT KEPT UP TO SAFETY STANDARDS. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. MAY YOU ALL GET JUSTICE FOR THE OWNERS THAT NEGLECTED TO FOLLOW FEDERAL SAFETY LAWS FOR DANGEROUS MINES.
# 193:
1:34 am PST, Feb 22,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 192:
9:38 pm PST, Feb 21,
Camira Xha, Saudi Arabia
# 191:
9:13 pm PST, Feb 21,
Terie Jean Carney, Washington
Hi, I signed this petition but how strange it is to have to tell you to do something that should be..? Well, a given! "Tell the Secretary of Labor why these hardworking miners deserve basic safety protections" Why should anyone have to tell you this? Are you that brain dead?! Why do you have this possition? If you don't know what to do on the job in your title, you shouldn't even be there! Didn't you go to grade school? People will think you are an air head cause you don't know your job. So I am sure that you have more common sence than turkeys do standing out in the rain and drowning themselves by looking up at the rain fall. Or don't you?
Hi, I signed this petition but how strange it is to have to tell you to do something that should be..? Well, a given! "Tell the Secretary of Labor why these hardworking miners deserve basic safety protections" Why should anyone have to tell you this? Are you that brain dead?! Why do you have this possition? If you don't know what to do on the job in your title, you shouldn't even be there! Didn't you go to grade school? People will think you are an air head cause you don't know your job. So I am sure that you have more common sence than turkeys do standing out in the rain and drowning themselves by looking up at the rain fall. Or don't you?
# 190:
8:46 pm PST, Feb 21,
John Leonard, Pennsylvania
# 189:
8:42 pm PST, Feb 21,
Brenda Moss, Utah
I come from a mining town, but thankfully my dad didn't have to work in the mines. Our neighbors did and their families were always afraid that they wouldn't come home. With the recent tragedy at the Huntington mine, it's more than obvious that we need to bring forward new standards of safety. Let them go home to their families at the end of the day. Put newer safer practices of mining in place immediately.
I come from a mining town, but thankfully my dad didn't have to work in the mines. Our neighbors did and their families were always afraid that they wouldn't come home. With the recent tragedy at the Huntington mine, it's more than obvious that we need to bring forward new standards of safety. Let them go home to their families at the end of the day. Put newer safer practices of mining in place immediately.
# 188:
8:28 pm PST, Feb 21,
Michael Turlington, Georgia
# 187:
8:26 pm PST, Feb 21,
Suzie Gordon, New Hampshire
# 186:
8:21 pm PST, Feb 21,
Jason Turgeon, Maine
# 185:
7:46 pm PST, Feb 21,
Pam Boland, Georgia
# 184:
7:33 pm PST, Feb 21,
Marcia Lamb, Michigan
# 183:
7:24 pm PST, Feb 21,
Viva Bader -baker, Washington
# 182:
7:03 pm PST, Feb 21,
Big Daddy, California
# 181:
6:27 pm PST, Feb 21,
Terry Lee, Michigan
# 180:
6:11 pm PST, Feb 21,
Denise Lytle, New Jersey
# 179:
6:01 pm PST, Feb 21,
Linda Stepp, Indiana
# 178:
5:43 pm PST, Feb 21,
Samantha Szesciorka, Washington
I've never in my life met or even seen a real miner. It's definitely one of those overlooked and forgotten jobs. But the reality is that they work in dangerous conditions and deserve more than they are getting from the government. We're all pretty dependent on miners for fossil fuels and natural resources and we forget that sometimes.
I've never in my life met or even seen a real miner. It's definitely one of those overlooked and forgotten jobs. But the reality is that they work in dangerous conditions and deserve more than they are getting from the government. We're all pretty dependent on miners for fossil fuels and natural resources and we forget that sometimes.
# 177:
5:40 pm PST, Feb 21,
Mary Boyer, Minnesota
# 176:
5:13 pm PST, Feb 21,
Atul Deshpande, Illinois
# 175:
4:58 pm PST, Feb 21,
John Hodge, Missouri
# 174:
4:41 pm PST, Feb 21,
Name not displayed, California
# 173:
4:37 pm PST, Feb 21,
Llew Taylor, Pennsylvania
# 172:
4:37 pm PST, Feb 21,
Fatima Horta, Mexico
# 171:
3:54 pm PST, Feb 21,
Sandra Marsh, Canada
It is a disgrace that in 2008 - when we spend billions of dollars in outer-space junk - that we cannot assure the mine workers of the US that their jobs won't kill them! Let's take some of that money and make all the mines safer for the workers. What's wrong with our priorities ??
It is a disgrace that in 2008 - when we spend billions of dollars in outer-space junk - that we cannot assure the mine workers of the US that their jobs won't kill them! Let's take some of that money and make all the mines safer for the workers. What's wrong with our priorities ??
# 170:
3:45 pm PST, Feb 21,
Adam Laiewski, North Carolina
# 169:
3:43 pm PST, Feb 21,
Janine Pease, Wisconsin
# 168:
3:39 pm PST, Feb 21,
Laura Zanoli, Italy
# 167:
3:32 pm PST, Feb 21,
Lene Hansen, Denmark
# 166:
3:20 pm PST, Feb 21,
Jeudi Curtis, California
These miners are people, and should be treated with honor.
These miners are people, and should be treated with honor.
# 165:
3:09 pm PST, Feb 21,
Eileen Fazzini, New York
# 164:
3:08 pm PST, Feb 21,
Cristy Lloyd, West Virginia
these are hard working men that work for their families. the sago mine and other mine accidents we have had this year and years past you need to protect these people that are just supporting their families the best way they can. where would we be without miners?
these are hard working men that work for their families. the sago mine and other mine accidents we have had this year and years past you need to protect these people that are just supporting their families the best way they can. where would we be without miners?
# 163:
3:06 pm PST, Feb 21,
Jan Brady, Texas
# 162:
3:04 pm PST, Feb 21,
Katie Burtsche, Washington
# 161:
3:00 pm PST, Feb 21,
Liz Duane, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
# 160:
2:58 pm PST, Feb 21,
Betty Van Wicklen, New York
This record is disgraceful in this day and age. Workers' safety and health should come first - before corporate profits.
This record is disgraceful in this day and age. Workers' safety and health should come first - before corporate profits.
# 159:
2:48 pm PST, Feb 21,
Christina Slivinski, Illinois
# 158:
2:36 pm PST, Feb 21,
Bergstromjoy@ms Bergstrom, North Carolina
# 157:
2:17 pm PST, Feb 21,
Louisa Greene, Australia
# 156:
2:10 pm PST, Feb 21,
Chris And Dani Stanton, Alabama
# 155:
2:08 pm PST, Feb 21,
Name not displayed, Australia
# 154:
2:07 pm PST, Feb 21,
Thomas Pirovano, Switzerland
Hopp!
Hopp!
# 153:
1:49 pm PST, Feb 21,
Name not displayed, Romania
# 152:
1:47 pm PST, Feb 21,
Jeff Hopkins, Illinois
# 151:
1:06 pm PST, Feb 21,
Ginger Geronimo, Alabama