General Motors Leaves a Toxic Time Bomb for America--and the World

[The Master]

It has long been a community concern about the toxic waste that auto and other factories emit, but consider for a moment how much more potent these toxic chemicals, solvents and substances have been at ground zero for the workers and retirees who spent decades working with and closely around them. Since autos were first produced more than a century ago, workers have been exposed for long periods of time to a vast chemical soup of health hazards unique to building those vehicles. Those hazards included breathing paint vapors and solvents, the production and plating of die cast parts, welding fumes, foundry work, pattern maker carcinogen exposure, asbestos exposure, cutting fluids and many other potentially serious health dangers where identifiable toxic chemicals and/or carcinogens were present. In his 1993 book, Who Will Tell the People, author William Greider talks of a worried group of autoworkers from GM’s Lordstown division called WATCH (Workers Against Toxic Chemical Hazards). They were concerned about toxic chemical hazards at their GM factory and became alarmed at how many coworkers in their plant were dying prematurely. In 2006, the Baltimore Sun reported that a scientist at (OSHA) was warned that he would be suspended if he would not remove “asbestos” warnings from a certificate about the use of asbestos in automotive brake linings. In the article, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), said that the attempt to change the OSHA document is what the auto industry and brake industry is doing to defend itself against lawsuits from people who died from occupational exposure to asbestos. American based multi-nationals have exported American jobs to less developed countries that allowed the exploitation of their labor with low wages and dreadful working conditions. They have also exported the horrifying toxic soup that accompanies this work to these locations.

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[The Master]

The left is starting to use the same ham-handed propaganda as the old Soviet style. Fortunately, environmental liability is joint and several, meaning anyone who ever bought anything from GM is responsible for the entire cost of the clean up.

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