Multinational Monitor back issues from November 2000:
Global Labor Repression.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000 ... AT LEAST 140 TRADE UNIONISTS around the world last year were assassinated, disappeared or committed suicide after they were threatened as a result of their labor advocacy. A September 2000 survey of 113 countries by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) ...
No Burn for Mozambique.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000 ... MOZAMBIQUE ANNOUNCED in September that it was rejecting a Danish offer to build a hazardous waste incinerator to burn obsolete donated pesticides [see "Something Rotten from Denmark," December 1998, Multinational Monitor.] The Danish International Development Agency (Danida) had ...
Sony: Surveil, Coopt.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000 ... SONY IS ENCOURAGING the electronics industry to surviel, block funding for and aggressively confront the allegations of an environmental movement increasingly focused on the toxic hazards of computer and electronics production and disposal. Sony documents obtained by the trade ...
"What is Society Willing to Spend on Human Beings?".(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000 ... THE SILENT VIOLENCE OF THE WORKPLACE takes a terrible toll. In the United States alone, 6,000 workers die each year from workplace trauma, and estimates of 50,000 to 60,000 annual deaths from occupational disease almost surely understate the actual number of fatalities. Even ...
The Prague Protests.
Nov 01, 2000; ... PRAGUE--The Convergence Center, an activist staging ground and clearinghouse, was electric with anticipation on the eve of protests at the World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meeting, held here at the end of September. As night fell, hundreds of activists from throughout ...
Mt. Olive in a Pickle.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000; ... NORTH CAROLINA'S Mt. Olive Pickle Company may be on its way to becoming a household name. The second largest pickle producer in the United States and by far the largest in the South, Mt. Olive is planning on expanding its sales beyond its traditional market and moving into new ...
Genetic Contamination.
Nov 01, 2000; ... THE DISCOVERY that millions of pounds of corn in the United States have been contaminated by being mixed with genetically altered corn not approved for human consumption has thrown the biotech industry into a tizzy. Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a coalition of health, ...
THE LAWRENCE SUMMERS MEMORIAL AWARD [*].(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000 ... THE NOVEMBER 2000 LAWRENCE SUMMERS MEMORIAL AWARO [*] goes to Treasury Secretary Summers' former close ally, Michel Camdessus, the retired managing director of the International Monetary Fund, in commemoration of the following remark: "You cannot denounce structural adjustment ...
Blame the Worker: The Rise of Behavioral-Based Safety Programs.
Nov 01, 2000; ... OVER THE LAST DECADE, workplaces throughout the world have experienced massive restructuring that has included downsizing, increased hours of work (e.g., 12 hour shifts, mandatory overtime), intensification of work (increased work load and/or job duties), increased pace of work ("push for ...
Carcinogenicity Alert: OSHA's Failure to Regulate Hexavalent Chromium and the Price Workers Pay.
Nov 01, 2000; ... THE CLINTON Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) appears set to end its eight years in office without proposing a single new regulation of a hazardous chemical, though not for lack of regulatory candidates. Since the beginning of the Clinton administration, ...
Power and Pain: Worker Organization and Workplace Safety in Southern Africa.(Interview)
Nov 01, 2000 ... An Interview with Rene Loewenson Rene Loewenson, an epidemiologist, is director of the Training and Research Support Center, in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has worked as Senior Lecturer in Community Medicine at the local medical school, headed the Health & Social Welfare Department of ...
Double Standards: U.S. Manufacturers Exploit Lax Occupational Safety and Health Enforcement in Mexico's Maquiladoras.(Interview)
Nov 01, 2000 ... An interview with Garrett Brown Garrett Brown is coordinator of the Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network, a volunteer network of over 400 occupational health and safety professionals who provide information, technical assistance and on-site instruction regarding workplace ...
Big Business for Reform.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000; ... SENIOR EXECUTIVES of the nation's largest businesses overwhelmingly say the nation's campaign finance system is "broken and should be reformed," and three in five back a soft-money ban, according to the first-ever survey of business leaders' views on political fundraising. The ...
Do I Hear $45 Million?(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000; ... SOTHEBY'S HOLDINGS INC. -- one of the world's largest auction houses -- will plead guilty and pay a $45 million criminal fine for fixing the price of commission rates charged to sellers of art, antiques and other collectibles at auctions. The company's former president and chief ...
Experts on the Take.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2000; ... MORE THAN HALF OF THE EXPERTS hired to advise the government on the safety and effectiveness of medicine have financial relationships with the pharmaceutical companies that will be helped or hurt by their decisions, USA Today reported in September. The experts are hired to ...