Interesting to me (I am a uniionist) Rivera reporting that these guys make a "decent" wage, and that only 42 miners lost their lives last year. I guess decent means that if ya want to own a home and send yer kids to college, yer wife has to work to make ends meet.
42 lives last year. Lives that most of us never even knew about. And thank you God it was only 42. We lost 5 guys on just one recent high-rise hotel here in Vegas. Word from construction management was that it was less than expected. On one of the latest large projects here in town, we've already lost one man, and another will probably never work with his tools again.
We joke with each other about what's the worst that can happen. Well, Mama's gonna have to find a new daddy fer yer kids and we're gonna have to find another fool to give yer hardhat to. And we go to work.
Is it any wonder my heros are men who cheat death?
