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Hazards
Asbestos
RSI Day
Needlesticks
Global union action
Building
work
Child labour
Food and farm work
Global agreements
Textile/garment work
Transport work
Workers'
Memorial Day
Journalist safety
LabourStart urgent action
campaigns
Union campaigns
Australia
Canada
Europe
New Zealand
South Africa
Sweden
United Kingdom
USA
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UNION CAMPAIGNS
International Road Transport Action
Week, 10-16 October
The highly successful annual ITF
Road Transport Action Day Campaign, which has been organised
since 1997 under the slogan "Fatigue Kills!" will
be expanded into an Action Week for the first time in 2005.
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International
RSI Day
The last day of February each year -
the 28th or 29th, depending on the year - when unions and campaigners
highlight the work hazards that cause strain injuries, undertake
workplace activities on strains prevention and press for preventive
action by employers and governments.
International
RSI day resources and artwork |
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Workers' Memorial Day
The day, 28 April each year, when millions
of trade unionists and campaigners "remember the dead, and fight
like hell for the living."
WMD resources
and artwork
Deadly business
If you kill, maim or hurt someone, you can expect to go to jail.
Except if you employ that someone. Unions have the workplace safety
criminals in their sights.
Deadly
business webpage
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International
ban asbestos campaign
Resources for the growing international
campaign by unions, activists and asbestos disease victims' organisations
to win a worldwide ban.
Asbestos
campaigns
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IFJ survival guide
for journalists
The International Federation of Journalists
has published a 135-page survival guide for journalists "providing
one of the most comprehensive manuals for working journalists and
media staff facing risky assignments."
International
Federation of Journalists
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Needlestick campaigns
Resources produced by unions in the US, UK and elsewhere in campaigns
to prevent needlestick and sharps injuries and the related occupational
diseases.
Needlestick,
sharps and bloodborne diseases campaign |
Transport
worker campaigns
Driver fatigue, railway and cruise ship campaigns coordinated globally
by the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF).
ITF campaigns
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Textile and garment workers'
campaign
The International Textile, Garment, Leather Workers' Federation
(ITGLWF) global HIV/AIDS campaign
ITGLWF campaign
materials and resources |
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Food and farm worker campaigns
Information in the international food
and farm union federation IUF's global pesticides campaign, including
details of Latin American initiatives; and information on the
IUF's campaign for internationally applied health and safety standards
in the farm sector.
IUF campaigns
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Building
workers campaigns
Global campaigns from the international construction and forestry
union federation IFBWW, on safety standards and asbestos - part
of an IFBWW global health and safety project.
IFBWW campaigns
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Australia
Working time, stress, overwork and compensation campaigns from Australia's
unions.
Australian
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Canada
Trade union campaigns on occupational
cancer, working time, speed up and the reorganisation of work.
Canadian
campaigns |
Europe
Europe-wide trade union initiatives on asbestos, strain injuries
and work organisation.
European
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New Zealand
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) campaign news and
information.
NZCTU campaigns
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South
Africa
Trade union education campaign on HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Ditsela
campaign
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Sweden
The safety delegates campaign run by Swedish union federation LO.
LO Sweden
campaign |
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United
Kingdom
Union campaign materials on asbestos, back pain, stress and gender
sensitivity.
UK campaigns
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USA
The US union campaign for strain injuries
recognition and an ergonomic injuries prevention law.
AFL-CIO campaign
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Global
A new tool for online trade union campaigning
ActNOW
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