It is amazing how so many people have fallen for a popular notion without checking even some basic facts. JK's citing of the Westray Law brings up good points about employers' responsibility in safety. However, his interpretation misses some important details.
For an employer to mandate such a medical intervention actually violates the Westray Law, as there is a clear danger of adverse reactions. The Westray Law is intended to reduce dangers, not introduce more of them. Introduced dangers are clearly documented by CDC VAERS data. The Oct. 22 update shows 17619 deaths and tens of thousands of serious reactions.
https://openvaers.com/covid-data
In Canada, any law or that violates the Constitution and the Charter is of no effect. This includes the Canada Labour Code. Any of the whiners who belittle those who assert their right to refuse an injection need to read the Charter, paying special attention to Section 7. This will settle the dispute. Everyone in Canada has the right to refuse any intervention to their body without being deprived of their other rights. The Westray wording "reasonable steps" certainly excludes forced or coerced bodily injections, as they expose workers to unreasonable risk, and of course violate Charter rights. For anyone without even a basic knowledge of the Constitution and Charter, the purpose of them is to limit on the power of government, otherwise a democratic nation would quickly fall to some form of police state tyranny.
Those who live in fear of COVID can relax. It is not the monster that they have been lead to believe. Canadian stats show a 97 % COVID recovery rate. Just do the division of 1,667,744 recovered/ 1,720,355 deaths from
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... ry/canada/
But even these numbers lack credibility due to PCR test errors that can range from 90% to 97% false positives, depending on data source. There is also the huge issue of commodities that have caused deaths of those diagnosed with COVID rather than COVID itself. The CDC has admitted that only 6% of reported COVID-19 deaths were exclusively of COVID-19. The remainder were due to commodities. (Brownstone Research)
https://www.brownstoneresearch.com/blee ... positives/
The late General Colin Powell is perhaps the highest profile example of a person who reportedly died "with" COVID, but not "of" it. The man had received injections against COVID, yet he died of "complications" of COVID, as reported by news media.
"Finally, the 42nd UK COVID Vaccine Surveillance report data on COVID-19 has shown that now the UK, following Israel as a heavily vaccinated country, has far more vaccinated than non vaccinated individuals in the hospital or ill with COVID-19. It cannot be any clearer—the COVID-19 vaccines are not stopping SARS-CoV-2 and are not preventing hospitalization or death." - Dr. Peter McCullough (internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, in academic medical practice in Dallas, Texas.
Nov. 1, 2021
https://www.americaoutloud.com/author/d ... ccullough/
This statement from a renowned Physician and medical academic certainly shows that zizek is equally at risk of contracting COVID from both injected and non injected ship mates. The leaves no cause to demand that co-workers accept side effect risks and relinquish their rights just to alleviate his irrational fears. His condescending tone and examples of unrelated issues are typical of the forced injection crowd. These are the type that would cry about the "religious right" "forcing their ideology down one's throat", which of course is only an ideological metaphor. But they feel it is perfectly fine for the left ideologues to, under threat of denying fundamental rights, force people to be injected with a concoction that is known to have caused many harms, and for which long term effects are unknown. This is also a huge denial of principles of science and safety.
He fails to understand that the primary mission of labour unions is to protect the rights of workers. Many have been failing this in the midst of the COVID injection mandate madness. There may be more, but only two unions in Canada have received national attention for standing by the rights of members, National Police Federation (RCMP) and the ILWU. Let's hope that government despots will see reason, and end their assault on our freedoms before these unions are forced into measures that would begin yet more crises.
Zizek certainly discredits himself with mention of QANON and "insane right wing conspiracy theories decide safety policy in my workplace. I think you would be far better suited for a pyramid scheme, not a safety critical industrial setting." Where on this forum have there been any QANON quotes or conspiracy theory statements? Where do pyramid schemes fit into the discussion? I'm sure that he did not intend to include this, but the big pharmaceutical companies are running such a racket making risk free $ billions in a market guaranteed by big governments. His use of term "conspiracy theory" is a red herring statement to discredit opponents. Its use can be traced to the CIA who seeded it into the news media to discredit people who doubted the incredible conclusions of the Warren Commission on the JFK assassination. This is documented by Professor Lance Dehaven-Smith in his 2013 book, "Conspiracy Theory in America (Discovering America)". All other posts that I have read have been quite respectful and based upon some form of logic, and have not belittled other members. Perhaps he needs to evaluate his suitability to work in a safety critical industrial setting. A condescending attitude is not conducive to safety and team work. If one cannot respect the right of a ship mate to make his own medical decisions, what can be respected?
What is the difference between a forced injection in the arm and a knife in the back ? One is a personal cowardly attack using a knife as a weapon. The other is an impersonal attack using government as a weapon.