Handbook for Grants Assistants

Handbook for Grants Assistants
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants. Referral and Review Branch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1987
Genre: Federal aid
ISBN:

Commissioned Officer's Handbook, 1990

Commissioned Officer's Handbook, 1990
Author: United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General. Division of Commissioned Personnel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1990
Genre: Personnel management
ISBN:

Current Catalog

Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 690
Release: 1992
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Environmental Unions

Environmental Unions
Author: Craig Slatin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351868012

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.