By Doug Cunningham

The United Steelworkers union says a Texas Supreme Court decision limiting contract workers to worker’s compensation benefits when injured on the job rewards negligent employers. The USW says without the ability to sue companies when negligence causes worker injuries the burden of recovery falls on the injured contract workers. The USW says if this law had been in effect when the 2005 BP explosion happened, BP would have escaped $1.5 billion in liability and the dangerous lack of proper safety procedures at BP would have never come to light.