Environmental Unions

Labor and the Superfund

Craig Slatin, Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant , John Wooding

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Baywood Publishing Company Inc
15 March 2009

Trade unions; Occupational & industrial health & safety

Series: Work, Health and Environment Series

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.

By: Craig Slatin, Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, John Wooding
Imprint: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9780895033826
ISBN 10: 0895033828
Series: Work, Health and Environment Series
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 March 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Cleaning Up the 20th-Century Mess: Protecting the Workers Who Do It Chapter 2 Workers on Poisoned Ground Chapter 3 Moving Congress to Mandate Worker Protection Chapter 4 A Fair Shake and Peer Review Chapter 5 Cohesion, Conflicts, and Excellence: The WETP Grows Chapter 6 OCAW Worker-to-Worker Training Chapter 7 The L-AGC: ""Training Is the Blood That Runs Through Our Veins"" Chapter 8 The Political Economy of Labor's Policy Initiative and Regulation Chapter 9 The WETP: Protecting Workers, but the Ground Remains Poisoned Interviews and Correspondence Index"

Craig Slatin is an associate professor of Community Health and Health Policy and chair of the Department of Community Health and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the co-director of the Center for Health Promotion and Research, through which he runs a New England region hazardous waste workers' health and safety training program and has conducted research exploring the political economy of the work environment in the healthcare sector. Dr. Slatin is a co-editor of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy.