What is the Steelworkers Union fighting for?
Through resolutions passed at our unions National Policy Conference and policies adopted by the Canadian Labour Congress, the Steelworkers Union is committed to three major objectives to prevent cancer, • The creation of a national exposure registry which would document toxic workplace exposures over the lifetime of a worker. • To eliminate or control exposure to workplace carcinogens. • To assist victims and their survivors receive just compensation. Some of the activities our union has been involved in: • At the local level, Steelworkers have been active in different ways from lobbying their employer to conduct epidemiological studies, to holding injured workers clinics to encourage identifying occupational cancers and assisting victims with their compensation claims. Without this local activism, the rest of our unions activities to support prevention of occupational cancer would not be effective or possible. • At the provincial level, Steelworker health and safety staff are part of
