Stalking a Killer: UAW 735's Cancer Watch

dc.contributor.author	Leslie, Michael
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-09T15:10:22Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-09T15:10:22Z
dc.date.issued	1990-09-01
dc.description.abstract	[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 overseas customers such as Bentley, Jaguar, Rolls Royce and Isuzu. In manufacturing transmissions, the plant uses thousands of coolants, lubricants, degreasers and solvents. Those chemicals, workers suspect, are the causes of GM Hydramatic's high rate of cancer, particularly brain cancer. This is the story of how a group of workers represented by UAW Local 735 formed a union Cancer Watch Group (CWG) at GM Hydra-matic to address a problem that the company and outside researchers were not showing sufficient urgency about. It's a story of rank-and-file health-and-safety organizing that relies on the workers themselves to research the links between cancer and the substances they work with.
dc.description.legacydownloads	Issue_16_____Article_12.pdf: 1170 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020.
dc.identifier.other	1213980
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/102564
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Labor Research Review
dc.subject	cancer
dc.subject	unsafe working conditions
dc.subject	General Motors
dc.subject	UAW
dc.title	Stalking a Killer: UAW 735's Cancer Watch
dc.type	article
schema.issueNumber	Vol. 1, Num. 16

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