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United Steelworkers Local 890L 500 E. Wilson St. Bryan, Oh. 43506
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"An injury to one is the concern of all!" Knights of Labor slogan |
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Safety is every one's JOB!
FROM YOUR SAFETY COMMITTEE AT TITAN TIRE
August 12, 2006 Steelworker’s New Report "Securing Our Children’s World" For more than 40 years, the United Steelworkers have been leaders in the fight throughout North America to reduce exposer to toxic chemicals and airborne contaminants. As a result, we have been in the forefront of challenging corporate resistance the sensible health and safety regulations necessary for governing our work and community environments. In 1990, following years of leadership in winning improved safety standards for such dangerous material as lead, benzene, arsenic, coke, asbestos and numerous other threats to work place and community health, the Steelworkers 25th Constitutional Convention voted to endorse a report entitled, Our Children’s World, which among things identified global warming as the greatest threat facing humanity - long before the public was even remotely aware of the magnitude of this growing problem. Over the past year, a special task force of our union, comprised of members of the International Executive Board and experts from our Health, Safety and Environmental Department, conducted a series of hearings open to our members and members of their communities in which they gathered new information and views. This extensive outreach resulted in a report to the full International Executive Board on a wide range of health, safety and environmental issues and policy recommendations relating to them. On March 1, 2006, our International Executive Board unanimously approved a new report, Securing Our Children’s World, that updates and expands our original work in addressing health, safety and environmental issues that have evolved and emerged since 1990. The Steelworker’s strongly urge its members to review this report and to work actively to win strong support for its recommendations. Securing Our Children’s World can be accessed online through the Steelworkers website. Copies of this report are also being sent to all members of Congress, the Canadian Parliament, Governors and Provincial Premiers. _______________________________
WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY APRIL 28, 2006 Decades of struggle by workers and their unions have resulted in significant improvements in working conditions. But the toll of workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths remains enormous. Each year more than 56,000 workers die from job injuries and illnesses and another 6 million are injured. The unions of the AFL-CIO remember these workers on April 28, Workers Memorial Day. The first Workers Memorial Day was observed in 1989. April 28 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the day of a similar remembrance in Canada. Every year, people in hundreds of communities and at worksites recognize workers who have been killed or injured on the job. Trade unionists around the world now mark April 28 as an International Day of Mourning.
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October 5, 2005
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