3 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Teachers Union Organizes Members to Enforce AHERA Law--A Work in Progress
…the Massachusetts Teachers Association developed an organizing strategy and a curriculum focusing on the requirements of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act and on building a membership-run health and safety committee infrastructure in local unions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Worker-sponsored survey for asbestosis: detection of occupational lung disease without a control group
…a cross-sectional survey, requested by a local union, of 57 white male workers at a small northeastern Massachusetts plant making asbestos wall board. The group was 52 of 56 active union members, three retirees and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Health Hazard Surveillance by Industrial Workers
…local unions, including workers in asbestos products fabrication. The authors gave examples. At one asbestos products plant, the company refused a physician representing the workers access to chest X-rays it had taken. The union and…