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LUEDERS, BILL
REPORT CARD Bill Lueders And Safety for All A JOB SAFETY AND HEALTH BILL OF RIGHTS by Rick Engler Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health, Fifth Floor, 3001 Walnut Street,...
...Others, such as the demand that workers be allowed to veto plant closings because they increase the risk of stress-related health problems, are perhaps too ambitious...
...This provocative document may help workers assert that right over their employer's privilege to make a buck...
...Occupational accidents and diseases claim 112,000 lives annually...
...Physicist Ted Turner talks about the "fascinating work" of designing nuclear weapons at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico...
...Grass-roots organizing is essential to the progressive struggles of our time...
...192 pp...
...And that was before the Reagan Administration slashed the agency's budget...
...Scientists, atomic victims, religious activists, and professionals discuss their reasons for rebelling against the arms race...
...Particularly valuable are the tips for writing fundraising appeals, opening and operating an office, and dealing with the news media...
...The conflict between what I wanted to do and what I had to do was so overwhelming," says Steinglass, "that I [could not] even look at my journals any more for years, because it would have torn me apart...
...And Ernest Steinglass, also a physicist, tells of his anguish at having to abandon his research into particle theory so he could devote himself, full-time, to revealing the dangers of low-level radiation...
...For instance, the U.S...
...Each year, five million Americans report being injured on the job and 390,000 develop work-related illnesses, according to U.S...
...Our greatest hope, perhaps our only hope, is that the people of the world take action to get control of nuclear weapons and of militarism," writes Nobel laureate Linus Pauling in the foreword to this collection of interviews with twenty antinuclear activists...
...two million workers have been severely or partially disabled...
...Most of the proposals are persuasive, such as the call to eliminate bonuses for hazardous assignments or intensified production...
...Engler's fifteen-point "Job Safety and Health Bill of Rights" touches all the bases—from securing information about toxic substances to rejecting unsafe machinery and procedures...
...32 pp...
...Although Facing the Danger might have been stronger if its editors had focused more on typical—as opposed to prominent—antinuclear activists, the collection is nonetheless successful as a clarion call to action...
...8.95 plus $1 postage...
...Together, they make a compelling case for disarmament and underscore the need to take personal responsibility for peacemaking in the nuclear age...
...Facing the Danger puts a human face on both the development and renunciation of nuclear technology...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration "had only enough inspectors to visit each workplace an average of once every eighty years...
...This handbook from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an international pacifist group, tells how it's done...
...Government statistics...
...The Chosen FACING THE DANGER edited by Sam Totten and Martha Wescott Totten The Crossing Press, Box 640, Trumans-burg, NY 14886...
...Kanji Kuramoto, president of the Committee of Atomic Bomb Survivors in the United States, provides a horrifying account of Hiroshima following the detonation of the Bomb...
...Grass-roots Tips PEACEMAKING IN YOUR COMMUNITY edited by Dan Ebener The Fellowship of Reconciliation, Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960...
...4.20 postpaid...
...48 pp...
...Safe and healthy working conditions," Engler declares, "are a basic workers' right—not a privilege...
...Sixteen essays address such topics as organizing meetings, working in groups, forming task committees, and reaching out to the community...
...REPORT CARD Bill Lueders And Safety for All A JOB SAFETY AND HEALTH BILL OF RIGHTS by Rick Engler Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health, Fifth Floor, 3001 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104...
...To protect employees, workers and their unions must take an aggressive role in improving safety...
...Government agencies lack the capability to combat the problem, says Rick Engler, associate director of the Philadelphia Area Project...
...Though geared toward prospective and current members of the Fellowship, Peacemaking In Your Community should be helpful to a wide range of activist groups...
...these incentives, says Engler, give workers a stake in perpetuating dangerous conditions...
Vol. 48 • October 1984 • No. 10
