tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post8626917532154756064..comments2024-03-27T07:47:11.168-07:00Comments on LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: Danger At WorkEUGENE PLAWIUKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-1405023742052929432007-02-18T13:44:00.000-08:002007-02-18T13:44:00.000-08:00Let's see how about closing the Alberta Hospital f...Let's see how about closing the Alberta Hospital for outpatient services, which put many seriously ill patients out on the street without community based services in place to help them.<BR/><BR/>Privatization of foster care services, which led to the current situation of another child being abused and killed.<BR/><BR/>Reductions in nursing and doctors quotas which now create a job crisis.<BR/><BR/>Privatization of laundry services, hence the link.<BR/><BR/>Reductions in staffing in all government departments between 1995-1998 except for Public Affairs, the Department of Propaganda for the Tories which got an increase.<BR/><BR/>etc. etc. etc.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-418480098146556682007-02-18T12:57:00.000-08:002007-02-18T12:57:00.000-08:00Okay, that's more than a little unintentionally hi...Okay, that's more than a little unintentionally hilarious: you think you're throwing a figure back into my face, I run rings around you in interpreting the data, and now suddenly <I>numbers aren't as important as human beings</I>.<BR/><BR/>As for the Klein Revolution, can you produce a single eviction notice with Klein's name on it? Name a <B>single</B> social service that was privatized? I know all of these numbers less than 1 are causing difficulty, so perhaps we should start with 1 itself and just build up your mathematical toolkit from there.Feynman and Coulter's Love Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05129851946309441082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-66371333516641475322007-02-18T10:26:00.000-08:002007-02-18T10:26:00.000-08:00Once again you and Canadian Conservative show your...Once again you and Canadian Conservative show your compassion is for numbers and figures, rather than for human beings and the consequences of ill informed actions, like the attempt to reduce public services. <BR/>The Klein Revolution of 1995 put folks out on the streets, closing much needed mental programs, privatizing social services, reducing nursing staff, etc.<BR/><BR/>The chickens come home to roost and all you care about is abstract figures.<BR/><BR/>So much for compassionate conservatism.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-78241723743309433612007-02-18T02:43:00.000-08:002007-02-18T02:43:00.000-08:00If you're going to try and go toe-to-toe with a ma...If you're going to try and go toe-to-toe with a mathematician on the subject of figures, you'll lose every time. As you do in this case. The article says "57% of nonworkplace incidents ... were classified as physical assaults". (The <A HREF="http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/070216/d070216a.htm" REL="nofollow">study itself</A> only mentions 57% as being the ratio of male victims reporting the assault to the police).<BR/><BR/>However, "57% of nonworkplace incidents ... were classified as physical assaults" is not the same thing as "57% of violent assaults were in the workplace", which of course only makes sense if outside the workplace violent assaults were practically nonexistant (at least we could close the women's shelters).Feynman and Coulter's Love Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05129851946309441082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-51000714043663102092007-02-18T00:28:00.000-08:002007-02-18T00:28:00.000-08:00I see you have pulled your abacus out of your ass,...I see you have pulled your abacus out of your ass, but your work with figures still makes you an ass. The Stats Canada report stated that 57% of reported violent assaults were in the work place, not in public space.<BR/><BR/>As for the rest of your comments they are the puerile vitriolic of a sad little man.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-63027446211466452142007-02-17T11:37:00.000-08:002007-02-17T11:37:00.000-08:00So what you're saying is that workplace incidents ...So what you're saying is that workplace incidents are responsible for 17% of assault cases in Canada.<BR/><BR/>Now the average work week is 44 hours. 44/168 is in fact just over 26%, meaning that on an hourly basis assaults diminish while at work. If that's not exciting news enough, bear in mind that the assaulter is not to be left out of the equation. He assumably sleeps, at least 7 hours per day, meaning he only has 119 waking hours per week. That means that the average assailant/victim spends almost 37% of their time at work, and yet less than 1/5 assaults take place there. Ergo, work is actually one of the safest places one can wind up.<BR/><BR/><I>The majority -- about 70% -- of the violent workplace incidents were classified as physical assaults.</I><BR/><BR/>Care to post the definition of what "the agency" calls a physical assault? I notice you left out that Stats Can did the revealing, which was probably wise. People might remember such things like StatsCan using definitions of physical assaults that did not involve any physical contact (real or attempted), or definitions of sexual assault that include unwanted come-ons. I mean, Stats Can might brag about their invention of statistics to European statisitician conferences, but that doesn't mean the invented definitions won't go over like a lead zeppelin.<BR/><BR/><I>As the ILO reported as far back as 1998 the reason for the increasing assaults in the work place is the decrease in workers on the job the privatization of public services and the consequences of the reduction in the size of government.</I><BR/>Ha ha ha ha ha! You're kidding, right? If "reduction in the size of government" increases workplace violence, we should have the problem licked by 2009! Name one year government at any level has been "reduced" from its 1998 level.<BR/><BR/><I>A survey by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) revealed that almost 70 per cent of respondents considered verbal aggression to be the leading form of violence, citing physical violence as the next most frequent form.</I><BR/>Ahh, so after "non-violent" events, violent events turn out to be the second most common. This is news?3<BR/><BR/><I>cumulatively it can become very serious, taking the form of sexual harassment, bullying or mobbing</I><BR/>I'm sure reclassifying office politics ("bullying", "mobbing") as violent assaults makes some NDP-voting bureaucrat in Hull cream his pants at the thought of new intrusive programs, but I'm not sure how much the average person should be up in arms that the government hasn't wasted time and money on solving this critical "problem".<BR/><BR/><I>The impact of the 1995 Neo-Con revolution in Canada</I><BR/>This is the longest revolution to take foot ever. And keeping with the ideals of your Marxist brothers, if there was such a revolution you would have owed it to yourself to commit suicide, given that Engels (was it Engels? I can never keep my reds straight) believed any successful revolution was <I>a priori</I> proof that those against it deserved their fall.<BR/><BR/><I>And thus the public sector and service workplace is just as unsafe as it was when miners needed canaries to go into the mines.</I><BR/>"Just as unsafe", eh? I'd rather have a canary than a 4-page "sexual harassment in the office" document any day.Feynman and Coulter's Love Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05129851946309441082noreply@blogger.com