There Is No Other Hand.

More than 7,600 workers have gotten COVID-19 on the job, causing thousands of workplace safety inspections across Ontario, but since the start of the pandemic the Ministry of Labour has issued just two fines, one of which to a worker. 

Ministry inspectors have conducted over 31,500 field visits checking for pandemic precautions and issued the same number of health and safety orders, which identify workplace violations and require employers to address them. However, only one employer has been fined and none have faced serious prosecution. 

To quote Deena Ladd of the Toronto based Workers’ Action Centre:

 ''The ministry is obviously not using the powers and the tools that they have to enforce and to send a strong message to employers that they can't mess around on this.'' 

What is blatantly obvious is the capitalist class and their political stooges don't care. 

On the one hand some may say, ''The only way to eliminate the problems capitalism causes, including this disregard for people's lives, is to abolish it,'' but on the other hand, - there is no other hand.

S.P.C. Members.