June 22, 2010
Australian Union Bans Workers from Uranium Mines, Nuclear Power Stations
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Fears of radiation exposure to uranium workers has led to the Electrical Trades Union in Brisbane, Australia, to ban members from working in uranium mines, nuclear power stations, and any part of the nuclear fuel cycle, according to a BBC report. Union leaders believe uranium exposure will replace asbestos as the high profile toxic workplace contaminant.
ETU state secretary, Peter Simpson, stated that uranium is the next asbestos in the workplace.
The report predicts that due to the danger other trade unions will follow and the ban will expand beyond Australia.
The Australian labor leader stated, “"Corporate interests, and their political supporters in the Labor and Coalition parties, are also trying to buy working families off with high wages, while denying the true short-term and long-term health risks of such jobs."
Interestingly, the reasons stated for not allowing union workers in Australia be exposed to uranium recalls statements made by dying and ill workers in the United States who unknowingly made the ultimate sacrifice working at Cold War uranium diffusion and processing plants. Two of the uranium diffusion plants which produced atomic weapons were in Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky. A ‘secret’ nickel/enriched uranium recycling plant operated in Huntington , West Virginia, on the then property of INCO. The Huntington Pilot (Reduction Pilot) Plant was leased to the Atomic Energy Commission.
However, United States defense officials having knowledge of the dangers of uranium are shown in “Censored News,” which publishes human rights reports about indigenous peoples. The photo (posted here) stated that “Navajo uranium miners during the Cold War were sent to their deaths in the mines after the U.S. knew of the dangers of radioactivity.”
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Australian Union Bans Workers from Uranium Mines, Nuclear Power Stations
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Fears of radiation exposure to uranium workers has led to the Electrical Trades Union in Brisbane, Australia, to ban members from working in uranium mines, nuclear power stations, and any part of the nuclear fuel cycle, according to a BBC report. Union leaders believe uranium exposure will replace asbestos as the high profile toxic workplace contaminant.
ETU state secretary, Peter Simpson, stated that uranium is the next asbestos in the workplace.
The report predicts that due to the danger other trade unions will follow and the ban will expand beyond Australia.
The Australian labor leader stated, “"Corporate interests, and their political supporters in the Labor and Coalition parties, are also trying to buy working families off with high wages, while denying the true short-term and long-term health risks of such jobs."
Interestingly, the reasons stated for not allowing union workers in Australia be exposed to uranium recalls statements made by dying and ill workers in the United States who unknowingly made the ultimate sacrifice working at Cold War uranium diffusion and processing plants. Two of the uranium diffusion plants which produced atomic weapons were in Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky. A ‘secret’ nickel/enriched uranium recycling plant operated in Huntington , West Virginia, on the then property of INCO. The Huntington Pilot (Reduction Pilot) Plant was leased to the Atomic Energy Commission.
However, United States defense officials having knowledge of the dangers of uranium are shown in “Censored News,” which publishes human rights reports about indigenous peoples. The photo (posted here) stated that “Navajo uranium miners during the Cold War were sent to their deaths in the mines after the U.S. knew of the dangers of radioactivity.”
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