Good for the Gov--NO disposable workers in NC

Our fighting governor has put on the gloves for workers!

While Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry claims her department is doing a good job regulating the poultry industry in NC (you can see her quotes verbatim in the Ch'O), the facts, m'am, are a bit different.

I won't go into them all here-- they're laid out deep and wide in the Ch'O series from last Feb.

But Cherie does not care if workers (not all illegals-- many are natives, both blacks and whites) are maimed and crippled in the chicken and turkey packing houses in rural NC. She has decided she will not enforce the law because 'no one is telling her' about widespread abuses and injuries.

And guess what-- the companies are pretty happy not to record and report injuries! They have no incentive now to treat workers better. It might add a penny to the price of a packet of chicken breasts. All the cost of crippling injuries (we're talking lifelong) is on the workers. All of it. Their hands and arms are disposable incidentals.

So Easley's come out of the corner swinging for them. Going to go to bat for stronger enforcement using the tools he has at the Industrial Commission and through the budget, for more inspectors.

Go, Gov, that's the Mike we like!