Written By: - Date published: 11:02 am, February 29th, 2008 - 47 comments
Categories: workers' rights -
Tags: workers' rights
NZPA reports that Hollow Men the Talley brothers have been fined $110,000 after eleven workers at their Blenheim plant were subjected to carbon monoxide poisoning from forklift fumes.
The company was found guilty of eleven charges of failing to take all practical steps to ensure employee safety by exposing them to the hazard of carbon monoxide fumes.
This is not the first time the Talley brothers have been up before the authorities for their appalling labour standards. Last year the Talleys lost a landmark sexual discrimination case over their refusal to let a woman work as a fish-filleter because she wasn’t a man. Andrew Talley decribed this ruling as “pathetic” and a “joke” and suggested women were better suited to being pole dancers.
More recently the Talleys have hit the headlines for trying to make the taxpayer foot their $1 million contractual obligation to provide for one of their workers who was shot on the job.
Perhaps if the Talleys spent more time looking out for their workers’ safety and a little less trying to corrupt our electoral system they wouldn’t find themselves in so much trouble.
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Michael Porton, your dislike of employers other than the state is evident.
What’s next? At this pace you’ll be soon promoting class warfare.
You’re gone beyond being a joke.
‘sod, fuck off right back at you. You are out of order and beyond tiresome. You are also very short.
As I have been at pains to point out, I am not defending Talleys. They did a dumb deal. They should be held to it. You are misdirecting if you are pretending that’s what I’m saying.
But, if you guys think an employer should be responsible because an employee is shot in his car park, you are mental. Which doesn’t mean the employee shouldn’t get ACC, just that the employer’s levy shouldn’t reflect that that is a workplace accident.
shot on the job/ Actually he was shot whilst sitting in a car in the car park smoking a joint. But why would you want the truth to get in the way of a nice headline.
BTW, Tane, I accept that your comment was about the carbon monoxide poisoning. I incorrectly assumed you were talking about the shooting, and I see I was wrong about that.
I have a litle inside knowledge of the three cases you mention.
The Blenheim factory workers didn’t have the balls to complain to their foreman. The sexual discrimination case is a classic example of the feminist agenda that is driving kiwis overseas (including women), and why an employer should be responsible for some fuck who gets shot by some other fucker he shouldn’t have been associated with in the first place defies all common sense. The Talleys were given nothing, they earnt everything they have. You socialist pricks aren’t fit to lick their boots.
What do you suggest Rob?
Murray, darling, you need to find a better way to relieve your tension.
I suggest spending more time in the outdoors Murray. Take up tramping. Swimming in the sea.
Also, try talking to people that you meet out and about in the real world. Try listening to what they have to say.
No worries Billy.
Talleys are a bunch of mongrels. They bulldozed through building a fish-meal plant in Westport right by the Buller Rivermouth, which is a spot that’s used by heaps of people for recreation.
When they got refused resource consent the first time, they came back with a new slightly improved plan, and got down and dirty with some dirty tricks to get it through some new hand picked Commissioners. They divided the community, all for ‘creating jobs’, which in the end amounted to 2 or 3 in the season.
And surprise, surprise the fishmeal plant reeked from time to time, despite their assurances it wouldn’t.
Talley are greedy bastards who have no social responsibility. They contributed nothing to the Westport community in terms of sponsorship etc, just their reeking fish factory and fish-meal plant.
if they’re that cavalier about contaminating their workers, what are their standards with their food products?
The Talleys employed security guards and other staff members to operate a covert surveillance operation against a TVNZ crew who were investigating Talleys’ bottom-trawling fishing.