Bangladesh factory bosses: Never mind those cracks, get to work!

Nice try Baron. You don't get to make the issue go away by using semantics.

The WWE has shown no regard for the health and safety of their performers. If you wanted work, you had to take great risks to your health. You had to work when injured.

No work, no pay.

These are the kinds of things you're supposed to be against. But, instead, you're an unprincipled fanboi.

 

Nobody's literally aiming a gun at their heads and making them do steroids. Guess what would happen if the Bangladeshi workers decided to walk out?

On second thought, don't bother guessing. Here's what happens:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/12/lead-d15.html

 

[coughcoughNFLcough]

 

Thanks for proving my point Baron.

You've been reduced to making the kind of argument you usually fight against.

 

WWE has been better in terms of taking care of their wrestlers. They now pay for drug and alcohol rehab for any present or past performer, and they finally listened about the problems with concussions and banned chairshots to the head. And a lot of this resulted because of .... here we go again ... the threat of government intervention. After the Benoit case.

Funny how the threat of (honest) government intervention can make even multi-million dollar businesses do what they should have been doing all along.

And again, YF, since you're the one who brought up the statement, how many WWE wrestlers do you think have died in the last 20 years.

 

So, they took minimal steps to protect their performers, to head off government action, after at least 28 of their former performers died before reaching the age of 50?

That's what you are defending? This is the company you admire?

 

www.deadwrestlers.net

 

Which point? The one about how big government shouldn't get involved in business?

 

Sigh:

Williams: Died of cancer
Umaga: Died of heart attack due to drug use six months after getting fired by WWE. Was fired because he refused to go to WWE-paid drug rehab.
Albano: Died at 76
Misawa: Never wrestled for WWE
Rose: Died of natural causes 18 years after leaving WWE. Had severe weight problems
Dunn: Died 13 years after leaving WWE after a blood clot went to his lungs
MArtin: Died 3 years after leaving WWE after ODing on oxycodone. Also found to have CTE.
S. D. Jones: Died from a stroke about 15 years after leaving WWE
Kowalski: Died in his 80s
Moolah: Died in her 80s
Adams: Died 6 years after leaving WWE. May have been doing drugs
Kronus: Worked, I think 1 or 2 matches for WWE. Died a decade later from an enlarged heart. No word on drugs.
Benoit: 'nuff said
Nancy Benoit: 'nuff said
Martel: Died after alleged drug use 14 years after leaving WWE, except for a 1 night appearance.
Ladd: Died at 69
Brown: Died at 64
Awesome: Hung himself
Bigelow: Died 12 years after leaving WWE. Had heart problems due to weight, and drug problems
Earthquake: Died of cancer
Grunge: Died 7 years after leaving WWE, where he worked for about 2 months. Died of sleep apnea.
Guerrero: Heart attack after years of drug use. HAd stopped using drugs a couple of years before.
Lord Alfred: Died at 77
Candido: Died 9 years after leaving WWE. Did have drug problems, but had kicked them, and broke his leg during a TNA match. Had complications from surgery and died.

If you're going to cite wrestler deaths, can you at least put the deaths in context?

 

Bad analogies, you mean like comparing slave labor to professional wrestling?

 

We need a concert for the WWE.

What a bizarre thread.

I wonder if The Undertaker got called to Bangladesh.

 

Don't blame me. I'm not the one who decided to use pro wrestling as an analogy for hundreds of people getting killed for their corporate overlords.