The International Federation of Chrysotile Asbestos Workers (FICAT) recently held a conference in Havana, with a clear agenda to oppose an asbestos ban on the pretext that the warnings about millions of asbestos victims are just a needless scare.
According to the Health and Safety Department of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), this pro-asbestos stance is backed by Cuba’s official central labor body and by members of the Athens-based international trade union organization World Federation of Trade Unions, which links together a small number of hardliners of the old central labor body controlled by the Soviet bloc. Most of the delegations at the conference came from different Latin American countries.
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The asbestos lobby has long worked to stave off a global ban on asbestos.
It is reportedly brandishing threats to jobs in order to broaden its leverage and get selected unions on-side – an action increasingly being orchestrated internationally through FICAT.
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