unsafe work conditions.
on the job.
The dispute began when a trian shop worker returned to work from sick leave thanks to the effect of working with the Adhesive BOstick 1437. glue is used for stickine parts of the interior trim to the car hody, as it passes down the Over the sears, this Job has been notoriously unpopular because the fumes from the cluc cause dizzibess, nausea and headache. BETC COATISLI on the job has been high.
PROTEST The worker concerned requested that he be allowed lo HO SOME piler job The foreman thought otherwise. And although the union safety officer was called Тот. management refused to allow him to be released from workers.
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A meeting with the arca manager for the tram shop ro lodge a protest didn't anything. The safety was not qualtied to deal with the maner in the view of management.
HAZARDOUS Tram workers then left the job. and a mass meeting of the TGWE was called. manded to know the chemica constituents of the glue and is safety, and finally voted to home for the rest of the day.
This was followed by the night his shift and the next day's shift, The quickly Changed.
ventilation equipment flown in By Thursday The glue was analysed and found to contain Safety engineers took measurements of the concentration of cos wett above in histole colene vapour in the air. limit value (TV) used to measure safety limits compment war installed it was below the limit.
officer of tbe glue replacing it by using studs Is now heing considered. Tus 1! beller. highly bazardous. benzene, a carcinogen.
The concentration limits toxic substances is suspect ar злу Tate. The die- decides by an American body - the Anserican Conference of Industrial Hygenise. (ACIH) This ise't a government body: it's virtually i company front.
attitude better than Expensive dor trem in are fame was nuisance, or other torms appease the the tolene.
- the scale - but when the sentiation The possibility of gerring rid altogether SUL Commercial toluene is li contains measuring TLY scale 1s animal among workers, guessing, Some of the limits on the посіла *reasonable free- And And they are hased on inadequare intormation: from experimens, obser- way sation of obvious suproms and inspired by exper hence of similar subsiances research to detect long cerm Asks trom small expesures calculaced.
even if it did. would Still -be marketed in the meantime.
Exci ACTH doesn't ciami all workers will he safe if its levels
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on strike at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant over a trim shop worker at the plant, reports on the dispute, and argues that only action by workers can do away with health hazards