Smash the Silence on Workplace Injuries and Death I An example from Canada is an official statistical aberration of an increase of workplace deaths within a context of a decrease in officially reported injuries. It must be remembered as well, that the number of reported workplace deaths does not include many workers who die from occupational diseases. The oligarchs applaud the statistical anomaly of more deaths and fewer reported injuries as some sort of victory. Of course, a decrease in injuries is not the reality workers face. The statistics are meant to excuse inaction and ignore the unresolved problems and even get to the bottom of why suddenly workers are reporting far fewer injuries on the job. The fight to smash the silence on the reality of workplace injuries, the lack of care workers face when injured, and the poverty and state-organized indifference and abuse injured workers suffer has become a constant and difficult struggle.
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nstead of coming up with
concrete measures to humanize the workplace, which is in contradiction
with the aim of the rich for private profit, the oligarchs concoct
slogans and watchwords such as "Workplaces without accidents" and "Risk
management" to hide and distort the reality of workplace death and
injury and silence the voice of
workers.