#candle factory

[urbanrelics]

CANDLE IN THE WIND

An old abandoned candle factory is something you don't get to see very often. Especially one that has been abandoned many years ago, yet still shows no trace of vandalism; only natural decay...

When you see these two 19th century mansions located next to each other, you would not suspect that a gem of industrial heritage is hidden behind the protected rococo facades. Both houses, although empty, still offered some nice corners, but the real surprise lay in the small factory behind them.

The brick building was originally used as a gin distillery, probably in the mid-19th century. However, around the turn of the century it was transformed into a candle factory.

Candles were mainly made for churches and chapels, such as Easter candles. The factory remained active until the mid-1980s and has been frozen in time ever since.

More than 40 years later, the entire building is threatened with demolition to make way for new apartment buildings. However, both houses were included in the inventory of architectural heritage. The permit to demolish all buildings was issued by the city, but was annulled after an appeal procedure before the Council for Permit Disputes. Two years have now passed and there appears to be no further movement in the demolition and construction...

[odinsblog]

Factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say

heard the warning sirens and wanted to

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Indict Amazon for murder!

The death of six workers at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, during a Dec. 10 tornado didn’t have to happen

By Stephen Millies

The death of six workers at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, during a Dec. 10 tornado didn’t have to happen. Workers died because Jeff Bezos is too cheap to build safe buildings.

On the same day that six workers died in Edwardsville, another tornado killed eight workers in Mayfield, Kentucky. They made candles at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory. Survivors are furious that the company didn’t cancel the evening shift despite warnings that tornadoes were likely to strike the area.

[tomorrowusa]

Kentucky candle factory bosses threatened to fire those who fled tornado, say workers

Night shift employees report managers took roll call as tornado bore down to be sure no one had left without permission

The largest group of casualties from last weekend’s tornadoes were at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory in Kentucky. Apparently bosses ordered workers to ignore sirens and other tornado earnings and get back to work rather than seek shelter.

Multiple employees of the Mayfield Consumer Products factory told NBC News that they took shelter in bathrooms and hallways when they first heard tornado warning sirens, then supervisors ordered them back to work when they mistakenly assumed the danger had passed.

“I asked to leave and they told me I’d be fired,” Elijah Johnson, 20, told NBC, claiming that he was among a group of about 15 concerned colleagues who were refused permission to evacuate.

“‘Even with the weather like this, you’re still going to fire me?’” he said he asked his manager.

The manager replied, “Yes,” Johnson said, adding that bosses took a roll call to find out if anybody had already left.

[ ... ]

McKayla Emery, 21, interviewed by NBC from her hospital bed, said she overheard a group receiving a similar answer earlier in the evening.

“People had questioned if they could leave or go home,” said Emery, who said she had wanted to stay to earn overtime pay. “‘If you leave, you’re more than likely to be fired,’” she said they were told. “I heard that with my own ears.”

[dwuerch-blog]

Our Christmas Fire

I was reading this scripture a couple of days ago: “Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!” (James 3:5) It refers to the damage that our tongues can cause when we think the words we speak are simply inconsequential. But not so if those words cut to the heart and cause major damage to the receiver of those words.After reading…

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[braaaaain]

It’s important to recognize that “some very basic misunderstandings about tornado safety have become part of the pro-worker narrative in the Tennessee tragedy and people need to STOP” and “the fact that some activists, journalists, and even victims are misinformed about tornado safety is being used as a distraction by the candle factory bosses, Amazon, and free market cheerleaders” are both true at the same time.

So, yes, trying to forbid your employees from going home or driving back to the warehouse during a tornado warning isn’t “forcing them into unsafe situations”. The safest thing to do if your inside during a tornado warning is to stay inside. The safest thing to do if you’re driving during a tornado warning is to get out of your vehicle immediately and seek shelter anywhere in your immediate vicinity, even if it’s an open ditch (but not if it’s an overpass. I don’t care what you’ve heard, DO NOT GET UNDER AN OVERPASS.)

We can talk about whether it was right to threaten to fire people for not sticking to tornado safety, but there are so many other things to talk about that are far more damning of these companies. They include:

Amazon and the candle factory taking no preparations during the tornado watch.

Amazon and the candle factory not having adequate tornado shelters.

Amazon using their flimsy, cut and paste supper warehouse in areas where F3+ tornadoes are common.

Amazon continuing operations in the warehouse during the tornado warning.

AMAZON ACTUALLY ORDERING DRIVERS TO CONTINUE DRIVING DURING A FULL TORNADO WARNING only ordering individual drivers to shelter in place when the drivers pressed the issue.

[gwydionmisha]

Candle factory had been 'going 24/7' to meet Christmastime demand. Then the storm hit

Kyanna Parsons-Perez was in a storm shelter with other employees at a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, on Friday night when she felt wind, even though she was deep inside the building.