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Browsing Labor Research Review, Volume 1, Number 16 (1990) by Title
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HELP in New Jersey: From Right-to-Know to Right-to-Act
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] Since 1987 the New Jersey Right-to-Know-and-Act Coalition has been working to extend the rights of citizens and workers to take an active part in decisions vital to their health and safety. The Coalition initiated ... -
ILG Organizing Sweatshops: An Interview with Danny Perez, ILG Organizer
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] "Uretek" has become sort of a legend among union health and safety activists. It has all the elements of a good labor storyworking conditions you wouldn't believe unless and until you saw them, a struggle that ... -
Joint Committees: No Substitute for Union Action
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] Nearly half of all industrial union contracts mandate joint labor-management health and safety committees (JHSCs). In the past five years, mandated JHSCs have also become common in the public sector in states ... -
Labor Bookshelf
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] Earlier this year, OCAW Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Mazzocchi, one of the "founding fathers" of the OSH movement in the late 1960s, started a new publication that embodies and seeks to further the growing coalition ... -
Organizing for Safe Work in a Safe World
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] Health and safety is a promising issue for organizing workers, whether as new members or in revitalizing local unions. Working conditions have dramatically deteriorated over the past decade, and millions of ... -
Plucking Cargill: The RWDSU in Georgia
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] Buena Vista is remarkable, however, because of the courage and determination of the mostly black, mostly female poultry processing workers at Cargill, Inc. Their story is one of organizing a union to force ... -
Reproductive Hazards: A Labor-Feminist Alliance
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] This term the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case called UAW vs. Johnson Controls. The Court will decide on the legality of excluding women from certain jobs under the guise of protecting unborn children. The ... -
Stalking a Killer: UAW 735's Cancer Watch
(1990-09-01)[Excerpt] GM Hydra-matic is a dangerous plant. Formerly known as the "Willow Run (Michigan) Bomber Plant" because it produced B-24 bombers during World War II, the plant today builds transmissions for GM vehicles and ...
