I'm glad we understand it similarly.Human greed isnt so different in the East and West.
(Sorry? No mention of Mr Gudkov's aunty?)
No, why? Did she talk publicly about anything relevant to either subject?
Exactly.Because rules and regulations?
True. But here's what: according to the regulations - and that's mentioned in the article - the mine is equipped with a safety system also using gas detectors. That system, and the detectors it relies upon, are supposed to be checked and calibrated and verified, and there are regulations on that, too.If you have gas detectors, but management basically ignores those, it seems a bit irrelevant to even carry them.
So when we, as two fellow miners, go to our management with our portable gas sensors readings off the scale, the management counters that with their system readings - properly checked, calibrated and verified - showing gas levels within the safe range. And then we have slim chances of countering that in court or anywhere. Because any corporate lawyer will easily prove that the corporate system readings are more credible.
Then the management expects us to either get back to mining or quit if we are still dissatisfied with anything.
Then I assume we look at each other in dismay, practice some advanced swearing (as mentioned in another thread), and go back down the mine, because quitting is associated with difficulties I've described above.
The problem with the corporate safety system is - and that's also mentioned in the article - that their sensors are located where gas concentration is expectedly lower than in the poorly ventilated dead-ends where the actual mining is going on. But that's NOT a violation of any regulations, it's the regulations flaw. The management is violating exactly nothing, technically.
To fix the regulations, the parliament (be it local or federal) must revise and amend them. For that to happen, understandably, some parliamentarians must stop being busy arranging public protests in Moscow, go back to their desks and do some reading and writing, which is essentially their job.
First, I am not so sure. Second, the whole corruption problem arises from the "right to compete" when the only thing people compete for is money, and those who are supposed to set the rules for the competition and ensure adherence actually participate in that competition as well.This is not 'forced labour capitalist style', it's the same old corruption problem.
I've been told that the right to compete is a natural right though, so the problem will stay for as long as either the right to compete maintains its holy status or money is the only aim of the competition.
Interesting indeed is how you don't see the duma change anything about the regulations they issue and seemingly hold the president responsible for not personally checking every gas sensor in every mine for compliance to yet legally non-existent standards.I don't see the duma change anything about it, with a president that thrives on corruption.
But interesting diversionary rant again.