BP Fires 10,000 Cleanup Workers - plus the piss test

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http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2010/08/bp-cuts-more-10000-oil-spill-cleanup-workers


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On July 13, the Deepwater Horizon Joint Command was reporting 46,000 responders. On July 23, it was down to 30,000, and the numbers have hovered around the low 30s since. Included in this tally are some Coast Guard and National Guard staff, but BP and subcontractors comprise the vast majority. (I've been trying to get the exact breakdown from the Coast Guard for four days, but to no avail, and BP said it didn't have it on hand, though the Coast Guard has told me it just reports BP's numbers.) In Grand Isle, Louisiana, cleanup workers (none of whom can be named; you know this drill by now) say their coworkers were either told to go home for Tropical Storm Bonnie and then never called back or fired in a massive and sudden drug test.

"Friday, the day before Bonnie, they sent a bunch of people home until further notice, and a lot of people didn't get the further notice," one supervisor told me. "Then last week, they shut the whole down. It was 'Piss in a cup or throw your ID in the bucket.' This was a BP drug test, not a company drug test. It's the first time BP tested us."

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"They wanted to get rid of people, and drug testing was a good way to do it. I used to supervise 30 guys; now I've got 10."

The scaleback is set to continue. Supervisors say they're supposed to break down to just a "skeleton crew" by the end of September, so hopefully the media myth that there's no more oil anywhere comes true. "Everything still changes day to day," the supervisor told me. "You don't know when a bunch of oil's gonna pop up."
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may BP do us a favor and self destruct

before our govt. ever gets around to using Justice on them

[obxhead]

1. "may BP do us a favor and self destruct"

I don't see that happening.

First this weekend or early next week the bottom kill will be successful.

Within 2 weeks, BP and the oil spill will be completely gone from the news.

Then shortly after that BP will be rebranded or another oil giant (Exxon maybe?) will buy the company and stock prices will return to their average of $60 a share.

In the end, the only ones that will really suffer are the smaller investors that lost so much when stocks fell to $27 a share and the people that live and work in the Gulf regions.