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Environmental Unions - Labor and the Superfund (Paperback)
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Environmental Unions - Labor and the Superfund (Paperback)
Series: Work, Health and Environment Series
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During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry
emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry
responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began
to seek federal health and safety protections for workers in that
industry and for firefighters responding to hazardous materials
fires. Those efforts led to a worker health and safety section in
the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. The
legislation mandated regulation of hazardous waste operations and
emergency response worker protection, and establishment of a
national health and safety training grant program - which became
the Worker Education and Training Program (WETP).Craig Slatin
provides a history of labor's success on the coattails of the
environmental movement and in the middle of a rightward shift in
American politics. He explores how the WETP established a national
worker training effort across industrial sectors, with case studies
on the health and safety training programs of two unions in the
WETP - the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers and the Laborers'
Union. Lessons can be learned from one of the last major worker
health and safety/environmental protection victories of the
1960s-1980s reform era, coming at the end of the golden age of
regulation and just before the new era of deregulation and market
dominance. Slatin's analysis calls for a critical survey of the
social and political tasks facing those concerned about worker and
community health and environmental protection in order to make a
transition toward just and sustainable production.
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