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OSH Rights Issue No 16, June 2007 PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 28 June 2007
oshrights.jpgWELCOME, PARTNER!
"Partner" was unveiled on the occassion of International Worker's Memorial Day, 28 April, popularly known as 428 evening in Taipei.
Puzzled? Here is solution: "Partner" is a monument erected by Taipei 101 management in its premises to pay tribute to all those who contributed in building this magnificent building. This 101 story building is currently tallest building in the world with 1670 ft height. During its construction Taiwan faced earthquake. 5 workers engaged in construction, working at height, fell down and died.

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OHS Rights: Issue No 15, April 2007 PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 23 April 2007

thumb_ohsrights Occupational cancer in Asia
Worldwide epidemic of occupational cancer is killing one person every minute, but this tragedy is being ignored by both official regulators and employers. In many Asian countries even Trade Unions have been ignoring these deaths. Workers, in many cases either do not know the hazards of the materials they are exposed to and those who now are afraid of losing jobs. Large numbers of workers are outside coverage of social security schemes, labor laws are seldom implemented and now in the name of liberalization the Courts,too are taking U turn. In such situation no worker can think of taking risk.

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OSH Rights Issue No 14, January 2007 PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 28 January 2007

ANROAV annual meetings are great opportunity for the member groups to build solidarity and look back to evaluate the impact of their efforts. Annual meeting for the year 2006 met at Bangkok on 4-6 November. A brief report of the meeting can be seen in this issue.

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OSH Rights Issue No 13, September 2006 PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 28 September 2006
After the last issue, on 20 the June we lost Vijay Kanhere, founder of Occupational Health & Safety Centre, Mumbai and an activist known all grassroots OHS organizations in Asia. When I was thinking seriously
to interview him for this issue, we lost him all of sudden. It is a great loss not only to Indian movement
on OHS but also to Asian movement, particularly ANROAV. He was member of the advisory committee of
ANROAV. We pay our tribute to the great soul. His life and work shall keep inspiring us for a long time to
come. He was mentor of many activists like me.
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OSH rights Issue no 12 PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
GLOBALIZING THE MOVEMENT
Capital is being globalized. under the leadership of WTO, National Governments are prepared to go to any extent to welcome capital. Even within Sovereign nations like India, the State Governments are competing with each other to invite multinationals and national industries to put up their facilities in their state. To attract them they are preparing SEZs and declare various liberties within their capacity. In this situation TU movement has been weakened. Workers are compelled to surrender the rights they got after years of struggle.
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