BP Hires the Unemployed to Help Clean Up Oil Spill

[bobthedrummer]

Source: by Cindy Perman CNBC

BP may have screwed over the entire nation with the Gulf oil spill, but it's throwing a lifeline to one of the neediest groups-the unemployed.

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/id/37594258

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[goclark]

1. BP plays "Mr. Nice Guy" ~ not

"QCR’s will be paid $18 an hour and supervisors will earn $32 an hour."

I hope they get good medical care provided after doing all the work that needs to be done.

None union ~ right?

[seafan]

2. That includes prisoners.

In early May, at least 80 Louisiana state prisoners were trained to clean birds by listening to a presentation and watching a video. It was a work force never envisioned in the plans, which contain no detailed references to how birds would be cleansed of oil.

LINK

[FailureToCommunicate]

3. "Shakin' it here boss...I'm shakin' it"

[formercia]

4. I hope they get respirators and HazMat equipment.

A lesson from 9/11 on First Responders who paid the price.

[BlueDemKev]

5. Well, isn't that NICE of them.....

....BP has possibly destroyed Florida's beaches, but now they're going to temporarily pull a few people out of the unemployment line and have them TRY to clean up the horrid mess they've made. Pay will probably be about $10/hr with no health insurance benefits. What a benevolent bunch of souls!

I will push my stalled car up a mountain before I ever put one drop of BP gas in my car again.