PBS Tonite Bill Moyers Expose' Mistreatment of Injuried Workers

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PBS Tonite Expose Mistreatment of Injuried Workers

" http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/587539.html

Our members feel they are being methodically pressured ...

to under-treat and mistreat, " said Dr. McLellan,

president of the American College of Occupational and

Environmental Medicine. " ...This is a grave ethical concern

for our members. It's a grave medical concern. "

_http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18523501_

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Tonight on PBS (9:00 in DC. Check local listings), Bill

Moyers’ Journal and Exposé will do a report on Worker

Safety based on the Charlotte Observer’s recent series on

the plight of poultry workers and underreporting of

injuries and illnesses (the subject of the House Education

and Labor Committee’s June 19 hearing.) Appearing in the

program will be Bob Whitmore, who was also one of the

witnesses at the hearing.

Injury rates reported at America's poultry plants have

dropped dramatically in recent years, and so have workplace

safety inspections. Are regulators rewarding companies for

inaccurate reporting of injuries? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL and

EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS go inside America's

poultry industry, which employs almost a quarter million

workers nationwide, to show the reality of working

conditions and to investigate how official statistics

showing a drop in workplace injuries may have been the

result of deceptive reporting.

More on the program here:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06272008/profile.html

The Charlotte Observer series is here:

http://www.charlotte.com/poultry/

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