Lax safety standards and the rapacious pursuit of profit at all costs have resulted in the plant becoming one of the most unsafe workplaces in Ontario.
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Successive governments have gutted workplace regulations and presided over a broken occupational health and safety system that allows companies like National Steel Car to turn workplaces into death traps.
The United Steelworkers Union says it will keep contacting and pressing Ontario’s labour minister until he agrees to a meeting to discuss the “deplorable health and safety situation at National Steel Car in Hamilton.”
Workers at the plant are outraged over Quoc Le’s death. More than 60 workers assembled at the gates of the plant on Thursday, chanting, “No more deaths!”