on the osha website. i don't have the precise address. so if a company was actually cited by osha for violations, all that is public information. host: next up is alex in flint, michigan. caller: how long do they keep it, jim? >> guest: i'm not sure about that. host: let's move to tom on the line for republicans. caller: the only experience i've had, i'm a farmer in midwest illinois, and this afternoon, i've got to go out, work the cattle, which is, you know -- you don't have a lot of control because you've got animal that is you're trying to press into a small confinement. i'm also on the county board of the county, and we have county employees, we have this osha compliance all the time, all the stuff that we have to do, because county employees are scrutinize dollars a lot. and you know, it just -- to me, just looking in at it, because i haven't had a lot to do with it on the county board, this osha thing, it's just one of these regulations that end up costing us money, because we're always having to ta

but osha missed the bigger picture. our investigation found that 11 climbers working on at&t projects died as the company built out its network between 2006 and 2008. that's more than all the other major carriers combined. at&t took notice. >> at&t made everybody have a stand down, discuss the deaths, why it happened, what will happen to you if you get caught free climbing. and they required that of every single turf vendor nationwide, didn't matter who you were, where you were at. you had a stand down. >> smith: so they said, "let's have a stand down, let's stop work and figure out what the truth is." what did they figure out? >> i don't know if they figured out anything, quite frankly. >> smith: craig lekutis is an industry watchdog and safety advocate. >> i think what they did, it was, "hey, we've got to pay more attention to safety" because most of those accidents, i believe, during that period of time, were accidents that were caused by the worker not tying off 100%. >> smith: it sounds like a prettylimsy resolutio

three decades was the last osha inspection? how can that be? >> well, that makes you wonder as well, but it's difficult to cast any sort of aspersions on it because i know they could have been -- they could have been sloppy or taken safety seriously and been doing a much better job of keeping it a safer place. the only thing you know that's a really long time and you don't know what to make of that. >> there are 700 of this fertilizer depots in the state of texas, which was the sight of the worst explosion, 600 people died in that one. given that track record, you think osha would be all over this place. christopher voss, thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure, greg. thank you for having me. >> a live look outside the white house right now where it appears a woman in front of the white house has chained herself to the fence. yeah. appears cops are in the process of trying to remove her. we're told the protest might be connected to her disapproval of guantanamo bay, where terrorist suspects are being held still. our producer on the scene says

but it kind of is because when we're looking at the occupational safety and health administration osha what you mentioned before why was it neglected for so long why is this administration so understaffed and underfunded well two things one i mean we are in this age of austerity which we have to cut as much government spending cut as much food safety inspectors chemical plant safety inspectors workplace safety inspectors plus there's just. seems to be this overwhelming. thought in america today in a lot of europe that of deregulation factories of reaganism neo liberalism this idea that is that if you get government out of the way shrink it that the market will police itself that these things will become less and less and less and we'll live in this perfect continuity and everything but of course that doesn't that doesn't hold any truth in fact what we get is what we see in west texas a plant that wasn't inspected in ninety i was one when that plant was inspected one thousand nine hundred five you get where you see the b.p. gulf disaster you get where you see in the western union the ma

in the wagner act which really the federal protection for unions over the next few decades we got osha you know bringing more safety into the workplace but unionization is on decline shockingly i mean over twenty percent i think over the last fifty years i mean why are we seeing less workers unionized if it's good for workers well it's i mean there's a strategy on the part of the right and some on the left even that don't think that organized labor is as is as important as it used to be as unions have gone down so as a middle class a share of income there's a direct connection between union station rates and the middle class a share of income in our in our economy but when it comes down to it unions fight for things like higher wages better benefits better hours and more work place safety and all those things. bite into c.e.o. salaries and corporate profits so there's a reason why you know the entities the corporate entities do not want unions they want more money i mean it's really that simple. and it seems like yes i mean the right to work laws are just so confusing to people who jus

in the wagner act which really great federal protection for unions over the next few decades we got osha you know bringing more safety into the workplace but unionization is on decline shockingly i mean over twenty percent i think over the last fifty years i mean why are we seeing workers unionize if it's good for workers well it's i mean there's a strategy on the parts of the right and some on the left even that don't think that organized labor is as is as important as it used to be as unions have gone down so as a middle class a share of income there's a direct connection between union new zation rates and the middle class a share of income in our in our economy but when it comes down to it unions fight for things like higher wages better benefits better hours and more work place safety and all those things. bite into c.e.o. salaries and corporate profits so there's a reason why you know the entities the corporate entities do not want unions they want more money i mean it's really that simple. and it seems like yes i mean the right to work laws are just so confusing to people who just

. >>> cal osha has drastically reduced the number of fines against disneyland for safety violations.iolations involved an incident in which a maintenance worker fell off the roof of space mountain. today, cal osha dropped two citations, and reduced the fines to about $82,000. >>> a human head discovered at a local recycling plant, plus. >> i may move away to another place. >> concern about crime as oakland loses its police chief. the efforts to shine a light on that problem tonight. >> in 9 minutes, don't business our special report on s.w.a.t.ing. the plank emerging. >>> workers at a recycling center in west oakland, discovered a human head today. it was discovered at california waste solutions at 10th and pine street. police and k-9's responded. investigators say they're going to check for dna and go through missing person cases to try to identify the remains. it's not clear yet how long agatha person died. >>> the departure of oakland's police chief is racing new concern among residents worried about crime, and also the deep cuts to police staffing. people have already banded toge

month has been another good -- make good progress overall on the project and again no injuries or osha reportable accidents. we had one near miss accident involving a crane losing some sort of loss of power in the lifting and a piece of equipment falling back into the hole. no significant damage to the equipment and no injuries whatsoever. they were following all of the appropriate procedures keeping the hoisting area clear so there were no injuries and work is continuing in the area. the excavation is about 72% complete overall and the micro-piles are 50% complete and zone one and 50% overall. the demolition continues in zone four as they start to work on actually demolishing the tops of the shafts and continue to work on finishing up the quality assurance coring of the piles. the geothermal installation started in earnest in last period with two sections installed and tested and covered up in prepareeration for of the mud slap and the water work continues along mission street particularly in the intersections at second and first street to finish those areas up. again the awss and a r

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osha. five f.b.i. inquiries and one f.b.i. visit and one atf visit. one osha visit. one audit and personal irs audit all you had had the nerve to do what? >> apparently after i had the nerve to file a tax exemption application with the irs for true to vote. >> megyn: you are a normal citizen? >> once upon a time. >> megyn: then you and your husband, you started an organization, a company in your garage. then you got a little political because, we can improve things in this country after the 2008 election. saw things that concerned you. then came true to vote. that is your organization. now gotten a lot of attention. had you ever had any trouble with these organizations prior to submitting this? >> no, when i look at the time line of events, that is the thing that makes it so glaringly obvious -- there has been a change somewhere. we have been in business for nearly 20 years. prior to filing this application some three years ago, we have had no involvement with any government agency other than file a yearly tax returns. upon filing, everything changed. >> megyn: they

the health hazard evaluation is osha and nyasha coming in and saying sorry there's too many sick people here and you spiller are now labile for doing long term medical surveillance how exxon avoided it was by misrepresenting the information as colds and flu. acts on managed to successfully hide these documents from the media from the people from the sick workers from the court from the federal health care officials b.p. is following pretty closely everything that. we were actually flying over the disaster site on some able to. and what we saw on earth there were two airplanes fly over and already carpet bombing. this bill with this person i started to notice that the planes and helicopters were flying over they were dropping this stuff the spray they were really secretive about where those planes were coming from and when they were going out they didn't really want to choose to take an abuse of planes coming down because it looked like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there carex it is toxic it's toxic to people

we were told by their out war during the invasion of iraq you can imagine that you can imagine upon osha would be on the lead in on you know sports are getting worse at the moment well it is but you can see members as there's a left to mean in the things in those like the train or mean in the things in this thing about local he says so what political colman they left chile to us means you know. when people talk about politics but don't train only a political comedy means satire to britain it means people having a bit of a go with the coalition saying that there shouldn't really be cuts not talk about things like war or a god or any any huge can of political touchstones you know says that there's a don't train oh don't talk about six at the most most people if you want to get on t.v. because it is a stranglehold on media with the b.b.c. it was so how come there's so little media diversity on that in the print page there's different print you know left oriented print newspapers somewhat compared to the us but a lot of people would say that doesn't exist that the guardian is just very you k

and i thank them for coming to the town hall with us every time that we can, thank you for osha for providing language service and now it is easier to get the non-english speakers to come to this town hall because they feel that they can participate as equal citizens as those who speak english, thank you very much mayor and supervisors for supporting the language programs. today, for the elderly ceo i am here to talk about the needs of our seniors as you know, mayor and supervisors, san francisco is a highest number of seniors over 65. we are already at 19 percent of the population higher than any city near us or near san francisco. i want to talk a little bit about how cpi has really eroded the core of the senior services that through path and the (inaudible) has provided to all of the seniors in san francisco for many years. for example, i am sure that kate and your budget staff have told us that for the cpi increase alone for food, for food items for the past six years the increase for food and gasoline and other cbi increased rises close to 57 percent. and for the past three years, 41 per

why was why were they cited for or for issues that may have been a direct result of this explosion osha's grossly underfunded and understaffed as well but let's talk really quickly about your new initiative our america initiative and it's not new this is well it's been in existence. well for years ok so you're. recent edition of and what is it about and how to get people out of the mindset of that two party dictatorship i don't think anybody is out there providing a voice for what i think the majority of americans believe the notion of being fiscally responsible socially accepting well ok it's one thing to have that philosophy but where is the voice for that philosophy i'm trying i'm trying to provide that voice our america initiative is the vehicle for my being able to do that most certainly there is a lot of things about libertarianism that are very attractive and i thank you for coming on and. we all gary and john the former presidential candidate libertarian party honorary chairman our american initiative appreciate it. our guys stick around because we'll be right back. wealthy britis

prevent anything like this now a lot of people would argue the other way around in when we think about osha which hasn't been to that plant since one thousand nine hundred five and we have to think that this is obviously a regulatory agency that may not be getting the proper funding or even have the proper power to really crack down on places like this so definitely something to look at but in the immediate aftermath it doesn't seem like you know worker conditions in dangerous places such as fertilizer plants like this is getting increased scrutiny at least in the short term yeah definitely hard in texas with someone like rick perry and lastly let's talk about the other aspect of this struggle which is of course the minimum wage or better benefits for workers not you are in new york i mean when this fast food workers strike kind of on the heels of the other strikes that we've seen in the wal-mart and chicago we're seeing it spread to other cities what was the outcome of that that happened five months ago were they able to elicit any change in that strike. well i think it's a work in process

or why why was why were they cited for issues that may have been a direct result of this explosion osha's grossly underfunded and understaffed as well but let's talk really quickly about your new initiative our america initiative and it's not new and this is well it's been in existence. well for years ok ok so your recent edition of and what is it about and how to get people out of the mindset of that two party dictatorship i don't think anybody's out there providing a voice for what i think the majority of americans believe the notion of being fiscally responsible socially accepting well ok it's one thing to have that philosophy but where is the voice for that philosophy i'm trying i'm trying to provide that voice our america initiative is the vehicle for my being able to do that well certainly there's a lot of things about libertarianism that are very attractive and i thank you for coming on and. we all gary and john the former presidential candidate libertarian party honorary chairman our american initiative appreciate it i think you. both feel like you so far go to our facebook page a

why were they cited for issues that may have been a direct result of this explosion and osha was grossly underfunded and understaffed as well but let's talk really quickly about your new initiative our america initiative and it's not new and this is well it's been in existence. well for years ok ok so your recent initiative and what is it about and how to get people out of the mindset of that two party dictatorship well i don't think anybody is out there providing a voice for what i think the majority of americans believe the notion of being fiscally responsible socially accepting well ok it's one thing to have that philosophy but where's the voice for that philosophy i'm trying i'm trying to provide that voice our america initiative is the vehicle for my being able to do that well certainly there's a lot of things about libertarianism that are very attractive and i thank you for coming on and. we all gary and john the former presidential candidate libertarian party honorary chairman our american initiative appreciate it i think you. feel like you so far go to our facebook page at facebo