User profile: genebean23

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Posted on: Workers walk off CityCenter site in protest

It's definately a horrible thing that's happened over the past weekend. Perini's goal is to send every man and woman home at the end of the day to their families and loved ones. Perini has been trying to change the culture to that of a safety oriented culture, which is something that can't and won't change over night. Perini has been showing this through holding stand downs on-site and explaning to all workers the safety concerns they feel need to be addressed immediately as well as being active in demonstrating their level of concern to the workers.

What bothers me is people immediately want to begin pointing fingers without knowing all the facts because in the end, someone has to be blammed.

What's sad is just because Perini is the general contractor, Perini is to be blammed even when an accident was due to incompetence or the lack of observing basic safety regulations that are in place. No matter what, you can't ever take stupid out of the equation.

It's outrageous accusations made by the organizations such as the Union or misinformed individuals that I believe is making our country dumber. I don't believe our forefathers intended freedom of speech to imply it's acceptable to make false accusations without due cause. Organizations and people like this need to begin using that thing on top of their neck rather than to occupy space.

City Center is a huge job in a confined space and as such, there is no room for mistakes, miscommunications, and/or bad decisions. I do agree with the Union wanting to make the construction site a safer environment but, at the same token, subs need be held accountable for their violations of safety policies that are in place and begin taking some responsibility.

What's going to end up happening, I can almost guarantee it, is workers will be getting fired left and right for safety violations such as not observing required PPE (ie safety glasses, reflective vest...). Perini has previously had the attitude of giving a safety violator a warning or slap on the hand, a second chance, so that that a worker learns from their mistake and doesn't end up working at another site doing the same thing and end up getting hurt or worse, ending up dead.

(Suggest removal) 6/3/08 at 6:33 p.m.

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