300 Turkish miners barricade themselves underground 300 miners across two shifts at a mine in the Black Sea area of Zonguldak have barricaded themselves underground in protest at atrocious health…
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Gas blowout on Total’s Elgin field: letter from a North Sea oil worker to Reclaim the Power This letter from North Sea oil worker Neil Rothnie, a long-standing trade union…
No need to wait till tomorrow, when safety concerns can be fixed today A short article about a safety concern at work and how it was dealt with by the author and his…
Not Jolly: Genoa dock workers protest after the disaster Two workers are still missing and seven were found dead at the Port of Genoa, after the Jolly Nero,…
Cargo ship destroys building at the Port of Genoa: 7 dead Seven dock workers lost their lives on Tuesday May 7, when the cargo ship Jolly Nero hit a pilots'…
The house of cards: the Savar building collapse A detailed account and analysis of the latest human disaster in the Bangladeshi garment industry - a poorly constructed factory building…
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Economic euthanasia - Robert Kurz A short article on the crisis of health care under capitalism in crisis by Robert Kurz.
Over 2 million killed every year by work, says ILO A report produced by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 2005 shows that some 2.2 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases each year. Adding that this number may be fastly underestimated due to poor reporting in many countries.
