We need to hire 100K people to clean the beaches, $10.00/hr plus housing: locals, including

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hotels, motels, restaurants...etc. will also benefit.

I think the government should do this and make BP pay of course.

People from neighboring states may go there to work too.

[readmoreoften]

1. Why $10 to do a toxic, non-unionized job? The Census is $13-$19, right?

So it should be $20 an hour with benefits on BP's dime. At minimum.

[glowing]

4. That actually sounds more reasonable.

[Donnachaidh]

5. and 4 hazmat suits given to EACH worker, so they can swap out

And they should have FULL medical dental psychiatric etc - for LIFE. And pensions for 6 months work.

Hell, if the bastards in Congress can get full pensions after a short time, so should people cleaning up toxic spills.

[cutlassmama]

7. It should be whatever Hazmat workers make.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Where are the illegal immigrants when you need them?

Oh, yea, that's right, we don't want them here...

:sarcasm:

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15. Yes, I like your numbers better, you are right Cencus is paying $15.00 here in Florida.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Sounds good to me.

[Dont TS Me Brah]

3. I'm sure the Administration is looking at options exactly like this...

and will make the right moves to clean the mess, inject cash into the local economy and punish BP.

[tabasco]

6. Good idea. n/t

[monmouth]

9. Best idea I've seen in weeks...n/t

[blm]

10. and on-site 24/7 medical care with nebulizers and prednisone....because they're going to need it.

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11. K&R (n/t)

[chill_wind]

12. There are workers there from a 5-state area, but only 20,000.

I think the recent Mother Jones piece that interviewed workers said they were getting $10.00 and being put up locally in shared hotel housing, but we are talking 12 hour days in the hot baking sun, gag orders not to talk about their working conditions, and deplorable practices and deception about their health protections and exposure to illness.


http://www.sfexaminer.com/nation/booming-business-in-the-gulf-spill-cleanup-is-creating-jobs-in-some-sectors-x2014-but-at-a-price-94906709.html

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/may/14/oil-cleanup-work-pays-well-work-tough/?preventMobileRedirect=1

http://www.bettermsreport.com/2010/05/the-sun-herald-cleanup-jobs-elude-some/


Local workers make ten dollars an hour cleaning
up the same beach again and again.

http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/05/oil-spill-bp-grand-isle-beach

The shoreline is packed with men in hats and gumboots and bright blue or white shirts. Nearly all are African-American, all hired from around New Orleans. They tell me they've been standing in these exact same spots for three days. It's breathtakingly hot. They rake the oil and sand into big piles; other workers collect the piles into big plastic bags, and still other workers take them to a plant where the sand is separated out and sent to a hazardous-waste dump and the oil goes on for processing. Then the tide comes in with more oil and everybody starts all over again. Ten dollars an hour. Twelve hours a day.

BP Sucks.

[Initech]

13. $10 / hr PLUS housing? Sign me up!

[chill_wind]

14. Just saw this--

RAND ISLE, La. — President Barack Obama says he is ordering an increase in manpower in the Gulf Coast to deal with the massive oil spill.

Obama says he will triple the manpower in places where oil has already hit the shore or is within 24 hours of doing so. The president says the increase will help contain the spill more quickly and minimize the amount of time oil is on the coastline.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/obama-increases-manpower-in-gulf-region-715047.html

AP details otherwise totally lacking.

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16. God knows, we need to create more jobs! No?

[jxnmsdemguy65]

17. Exxon paid people $45 an hour to scrub rocks after the Valdez spill...

fuck a bunch of $10 an hour bullshit....