News from USW: United Steelworkers' Website Challenges DuPont's Safety and Environmental Sustainability Record in Portuguese and English.PITTSBURGH -- News from USW USW Und So Weiter (German: and so on) USW Undersea Warfare USW United Steel Workers USW US Wheat Associates USW Ultrasonic Welding USW Ultra Short Wave USW US West Telecommunications (stock symbol) : United Steelworkers United Steelworkers (USW) historic labour union representing workers in steel, aluminum, and other metallurgical industries for much of the 20th century. In the U.S. (USW) is now offering portions of their website, www.DupontSafetyRevealed.org, in Portuguese. The website reveals poor safety, health and environmental conditions at DuPont (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DD) facilities in Brazil, where serious accidents resulting in one fatality and other injuries have recently occurred. Brazilian unions provided the information after a USW delegation visited there in August. The USW also translated its "Not Walking the Talk: DuPont's Untold Safety Failures" report into Portuguese. The website features a report, in English and Portuguese, by a Brazilian government agency that faults DuPont for the death of a worker in an explosion at the company's CamaE*ari plant last year, along with news stories and photos about an explosion that injured three workers at DuPont's Guarulhos' plant, near Sao Paulo, on October 5. Photos on the website show the deplorable neighborhood conditions surrounding DuPont's Guarulhos, Brazil plant, and numerous safety hazards and dirty conditions inside the company's Niagara Falls Niagara Falls, waterfall, United States and Canada Niagara Falls, in the Niagara River, W N.Y. and S Ont., Canada; one of the most famous spectacles in North America. The falls are on the international line between the cities of Niagara Falls, N.Y. , NY plant. The USW is working to expand the global DuPont network of unions, established under the auspices of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM ICEM International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions ICEM International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM International Conference on Emergency Medicine ICEM Institut Cooperatif de l'Ecole Moderne ), to include unions from other countries in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . The USW and ICEM met recently with unions representing DuPont workers in Tlalnepantla, Mexico. The union agreed to join the network which now consists of unions in the U.S., Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Brazil and Mexico. The USW is largest industrial union in North America with 850,000 members. |
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