Health and safety victory for recycling plant workers
Submitted by Ed on Apr 16 2018 10:33
Today the Orion recycling workers return to work as heroes bringing an end to their historic two and a half week walkout over dangerous working conditions which began on Wednesday 28th March.
Tragic events in Russia
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 8 2018 09:59
Exactly a week after Putin’s “landslide” victory in the Russian Presidential election (March 18) a terrible fire broke out in the “Winter Cherry” shopping and entertainment centre of the Siberian city of Kemerovo. It killed more than 80 people, at least 40 of whom are children. Some are still missing. Appalling though Kemerovo was, it was not an isolated incident.
The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Submitted by Red Marriott on Jun 19 2017 16:23
The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder. Given the years of complaints from Grenfell tenants(1) about their landlord the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation(KCTMO)(2), we can reasonably ask why the HCA never stepped in to investigate the terrible tenant-landlord relationship and the many fire safety complaints tenants had flagged up repeatedly before the fire broke out.
Smothered by regeneration: the Grenfell Tower fire
Submitted by libcom on Jun 14 2017 10:48
Tenants at Grenfell Tower repeatedly warned the council and its management organisation about fire safety risks before a deadly blaze engulfed the 24-storey residential tower block.
Night of the gas: Bhopal India
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 8 2017 19:59
Article on the worst industrial disaster in the world, the gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal India. The leak, caused by non existent safety operations would kill or mutilate over 25,000 people and continues to poison the area and the population to this day.
On the Line (December 1985)
The December 1985 issue of On the Line, a newsletter of Workers Solidarity Alliance in the New York/New Jersey area.
Break the silence on Azerbaijan oil workers' deaths
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Aug 4 2016 08:27
In Azerbaijan, oil workers and their families are demanding answers about offshore safety standards, but the authorities have stayed silent for nine months about the causes of a disaster that killed 31 people
The Monongah mining disaster, 1907 - Steven Johns
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 1 2016 21:02
A short account of the worst mining disaster in US history, which killed over 360 mostly Italian migrant workers and which was the inspiration for Father's Day events.
The matchgirls strike, 1888 - John Simkin
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 5 2016 11:28
A short account of the successful strike in 1888 by thousands of unorganised female workers at the Bryant & May match factory in London.
The Burnsall strike: a glimpse of the future
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 13 2016 18:45
A short history of the year-long strike of mostly Asian women workers at Burnsall Ltd in Smethwick 1992-93.
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