KY Candle factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say

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21. No, they're not.

But it was clear by late afternoon Friday that this was going to be unusually bad, way out of the norm for December.

Would it have hurt the company if it had just cancelled that shift out of an abundance of caution? ONE shift? Even if nothing had happened, eight people (maybe more) would maybe still be alive right now. Who cares if orders got backlogged?

But…candles.

This tells me we need to be:1) seriously rethinking severe weather protocols in light of global warming; and 2) OSHA and FEMA need to be directly involved with the planning and inspection of safe spaces in warehouse-type buildings.

But we’ll learn nothing from this, as usual, because workers are expendable.