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WORKING WORLD
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Child labour Child labour isn’t about helping out mum and dad. For millions of children worldwide, it’s a way of life. |
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FACK at work Familes Against Corporate Killers (FACK) members speak about their high profile campaign for justice. |
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Asbestos
threats The asbestos industry may
be ailing, but it’s not dead yet. |
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Thai
troubles When 54 migrant workers
suffocated in April, the world’s media focused momentarily on
Thailand’s appalling safety record. But a new group says deadly
exploitation is routine and largely ignored.
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Working
in Japan
Many of today’s fast and furious work methods originated in
Japan. Mick Holder looks at how JOSHRC, a small, union-backed advocacy
organisation, has ensured safe and healthy work has survived on the
agenda.
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Palestine
Israeli occupation and an economic crisis in Palestine mean the jobs
that do exist tend to be poorly paid, unsafe and insecure.
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Lumbered
The Chilean Confederation of Forestry Workers (CFT) is one of the
most active unions on health and safety in the sector anywhere in
the world.
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Making
links
AAWL’s Manrico Moro describes the Melbourne-based organisation’s
groundbreaking regional health and safety project.
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Human
Wreckage
Shipbreaking workers from India travelled to London to expose the
deadly risks commonplace in the industry and to demand urgent reforms
to save lives.
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Supply
chains
Why should a worker in Bangladesh have
to put her or his life on the line simply to make a cheap sweater
or t-shirt for European shoppers? Nina
Ascoly of the Clean Clothes Campaign describes the global campaign
for safe work and justice. |
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Life
and death in Gujarat
Gujarat is one of the most industrialised regions of India providing
millions of extremely hard, harsh and hazardous jobs. PTRC explains
how it works to improve working conditions. |
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China
Rapid industrialisation has seen China emerge as an economic superpower.
It has also brought hundreds of thousands of cases of occupational
disease each year and tens of thousands of workplace fatalities.
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Hazards
Campaign
How can thousands of workers in one of the world’s richest
nations die each year because they face obvious and preventable
hazards at work? Workers have to organise for the sake of their
health. |
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VTHC
Unions in the state of Victoria, Australia, have been breaking new
ground on workplace health and safety for over 150 years. |
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NUMSA
Hlokoza Motau, international officer with metalworkers’ union
NUMSA, explains how the union fights hazards and apartheid’s
deadly legacy. |
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Enough
said
CUPE national health and safety director Anthony Pizzino tells Hazards
why his union said "enough!" and moved to a more militant approach
to union health and safety, with organisation at its core. |
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Don't
mess with the unions
A global union campaign has seen James Hardie's rapid descent from
darling of the stockmarket to company in crisis, facing protests
and legal action on three continents.
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Union
mettle
Anita Gardner of the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF)
describes the global union's campaign to protect shipbreaking workers.
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Vital
signs
New Zealand's Labour government, after intensive lobbying from unions,
has introduced new laws requiring worker participation in health
and safety.
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Bargaining
on safety
Cathy Walker, health and safety director
of autoworkers' union CAW, describes the Canadian unions' lifesaving
fight for better rights and better workplaces. |
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Dirty
secrets of the cleanrooms
From Silicon Glen in Scotland to Silicon Plateau in India, there are
serious concerns about the long term health and environmental impact
of the micro-electronics industry. |
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Growing
pains
With agriculture one of the most dangerous industries, improving health
and safety is a top union priority. |
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Have
a safe journey
ITF says co-ordinated union action on a workplace, national and global
scale is the ticket to safer transport. |
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Material
damage
Global union ITGLWF tackles textiles hazards.
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Union
building
In construction at least 108,000 workers
are killed on site every year, says global union IFBWW. |
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Two
million killed at work each year
"If terrorism took such a toll, just imagine
what would be said and done." Jukka Takala, ILO. |
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Made in China
Global movement towards local solutions.
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Safety in
numbers
Global mega-union ICEM is making things
safer at work |
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Building
solidarity
Asia photofile: Union backed OHSE institute
tackles deaths disgrace.
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Little luxuries
Union tour sees the bitter fruits of international
exploitation. |
Links
LabourStart The best
union news service anywhere.
International union links Links to international
union organisations' health and safety webpages.
Global Unions Round
up of international union news.
Global Workplace War
on Want's "global workplace" solidarity page.
Labour Rights Now!
US autoworkers' union UAW international solidarity page.
Global union agreements
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