The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union: Refining Strategies for Labor

Wooding, John; Levenstein, Charles; Rosenberg, Beth

doi:10.2190/wp4b-txhu-f5u7-96ge

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“…This Texas counterpart to Cetrel operates in a social environment where labor is weak and workers are for the most part non-unionized (24). There is a loose network of business leaders that only get together when legal crises develop, such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's requirements for pre-treatment guidelines for industrial wastewater.…”

Section: Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authoritymentioning

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Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries

Siqueira¹,

Levenstein²

2000

Int J Health Serv

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This article complements the substantial body of literature produced over the last three decades on the export of hazards from developed countries to developing countries. After reviewing the central arguments proposed by this literature, the authors add to the debate by focusing on the role of national actors in the importation of these hazards, based on the experience of late 1970s' developments in the petrochemical industry in Brazil. The Brazilian case indicates that social struggles and/or interactions among actors in developing and developed nations determine to what extent hazardous technologies are imported without environmental controls and to what extent their hazardous effects are controlled by these nations. This study suggests that the future development of a more inclusive theory of export-import of hazardous technologies and products should take into account the dialectical relationship established between social actors internal to the exporting and importing countries.

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Section: Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authoritymentioning

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Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries

Siqueira¹,

Levenstein²

2000

Int J Health Serv

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“…This is not to argue against the continuing intervention of unions at the national scale and above, but instead to call for the rethinking of relations between national and subnational scales. As research from other countries demonstrates (eg Wooding, Levenstein and Rosenberg 1997), the most successful renewal campaigns are those that have re-energised the grassroots.…”

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Genuine Renewal or Pyrrhic Victory? The Scale Politics of Trade Union Recognition in the UK

Cumbers

2005

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There is an ongoing debate within radical geography concerned with the trade union response to the hegemony of business interests apparent under neoliberal capitalism. In this paper, I contribute to this debate by exploring recent attempts to renew trade union organisation in the UK following decades of decline. I argue that, despite recent successes in stemming falling membership numbers and signing new recognition agreements, closer inspection reveals flaws in the renewal process that reflect the underlying nature of scale politics within the union movement itself. In particular, centralised strategies at the national level are failing to re-energise local-level union organisation leading to a rather hollow and pyrrhic renewal process. Drawing upon both macro-level analysis and evidence from a particular industry case study, I suggest that unions rethink their organisational geographies and scalar relations if they wish to re-connect with the grassroots and at a broader level remain a progressive force in the changing economic landscape.

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“…The OCAW was created in 1955 when the Oil Workers International and the United Gas, Coke, and Chemical Workers unions merged [11]. Both unions were created during the CIO organizing drives of the 1930s.…”

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“…See[11] for a fuller discussion of the industry and its relationship to the OCAW. For a discussion of the health and safety hazards of the industry, see[5].…”

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Health and Safety Organizing: Ocaw's Worker-to-Worker Health and Safety Training Program

Slatin¹

2002

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In 1987, the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union (OCAW) was funded as one of the original eleven awardees of the Superfund Worker Training Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The OCAW, with the Labor Institute, developed a hazardous waste worker and hazardous materials emergency responder health and safety training program that was specific to its members in the represented industries. A social history is developed to explore a union-led, worker health education intervention. The program sought to develop worker-trainers who would conduct the training, using the Small-Group Activity Method, participate in curriculum development, and ultimately use health and safety training as a vehicle for identifying, developing, and mobilizing health and safety activists among the membership. Although the direction for this effort came from progressive leadership, it arose from the political economy of labor/management relations within specific industrial sectors.

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The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union: Refining Strategies for Labor

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries

Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries

Genuine Renewal or Pyrrhic Victory? The Scale Politics of Trade Union Recognition in the UK

Health and Safety Organizing: Ocaw's Worker-to-Worker Health and Safety Training Program

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