Union Approach to Health and Safety: - United Steelworkers

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Questions To Answer Regarding Communications Map 1. Who is/are the union’s health and safety committee members communicating with the most? 2. Who is/are the union’s health and safety committee members communicating with the least? 3. What are the strengths of this communications pattern? 4. What are the weaknesses of this communications pattern? 5. Should there be any changes made to this communications pattern? If so, what changes should be considered? 6. If appropriate, how could communication on health and safety issues with union leadership/officers be improved? 7. If appropriate, how could communication on health and safety issues with the union membership be improved?
Activity Handout UNION PREPARATION FOR JOINT LABOR MANAGEMENT SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE MEETINGS PURPOSE To practice preparing for joint labor-management health and safety committee meetings. TASKS Your small group includes the union health and safety committee representatives to a joint labor-management health and safety committee in your workplace. You are meeting to prepare for the next joint labor-management meeting. Management has given you the agenda for that meeting (see attached.) As a group, review and discuss the agenda. Begin preparing for this meeting by answering the questions below. Pick a reporter who will report back to the larger group on your responses to these questions. _____________________________________________________________ 1. Select one of the following items that appears on the joint labor-management meeting agenda: I, i: Redesign of Department 1: blueprint/layout to be submitted to the committee (employer) II, iii: Complaints about ventilation in Department 2: employees complaining of headache and other minor symptoms III, ii: Creation of Departmental/Area Safety Teams (employer)
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involvement groups or teams. Genera
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discourage workers from reporting i
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References Aiken, L.H., Clarke, S.P
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National Institute for Occupational
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High levels of monthly overtime (84
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Multi-skilling Multi-tasking Flexib
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All of these trends have negative i
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Arenas of Struggle: Where Managemen
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Introduction In 1993, the USWA init
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substance of collective worker powe
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Management is seeking to create a p
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"rubber hits the road," in the actu
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would with a management facilitator
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their sense of solidarity with fell
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People are told that the reason tha
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Lost in the Desert is one of severa
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include: * Success and failure are
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In the workplace, where management
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1) that everything that happens in
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impacts of changes while ignoring l
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include: How does the appearance of
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Ideas for Acting Like a Union: Make
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Involvement programs often utilize
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waste as management defines it incl
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A favorite trick of involvement con
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A flip chart and magic marker are o
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Please send comments and suggestion
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Where will the data be stored? What
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Questions about New Work Systems an
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What Is The Most Effective Way To P
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To create a body map, you need the
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A set of “sticky dots” in 6 dif
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Example of Life Map in Progress Ask
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time, and so on. These are consider
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Access to Exposure and Medical Reco
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Workers and/or unions who request i
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There can be a charge for these cop
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Calling For An Inspection If you wa
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OSHA Citations OSHA may choose to i
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What Injuries/Illnesses Must The Em
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Privacy and Recording Injuries and
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USES AND LIMITATIONS OF OSHA 300 LO
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Who Serves on Local Union Health an
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Identifying and communicating with
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work on improving safety and health
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in member-involving ways, using uni
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