31 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 2 of 2
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Company document · WARD Documents · June 5, 1984
Nancy Vedera to J-M Attorneys Enclosing an Organization Directory for the Insurance Litigation (1984)
…M lent a full-time hygienist to the insulation workers' research program run with Dr. Selikoff and the asbestos workers' union, and that after Leroy Gardner died in 1946 the Saranac report was written "After much…
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Company document · WARD Documents · October 25, 1973
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 22, on Not Circulating NIOSH's Asbestos Booklet to Employees (1973)
…the remarks were not "a rebuttal" but might prove useful "if the employee should raise questions or the union should formally request information." Two weeks later J-M sent its own booklet to its plants (OSHA…
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 7, 1973
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 23, Sending "What Every Employee Should Know About Asbestos" to the Plants (1973)
…22). J-M's booklet is attached to McKinney's 1974 memo on foreign customers, which reports no adverse union or employee reaction to it. Plant managers were to choose how to hand it out, ideally…
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Company document · WARD Documents · August 15, 1980
W. B. Reitze to Plant Managers on OSHA's Rule on Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records (1980)
…useless provision, because under the Freedom of Information Act, sooner or later all data is leaked." Later that year Reitze warned that withholding retirees' records from a union would break the rule (W. B. Reitze to…
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 14, 1978
Testimonies of Francis H. May and G. Earl Parker of Johns-Manville Before the House Subcommittee on Compensation, Health and Safety (1978)
…survey be included and that none of the unfavorable be unintentionally pictured in darker tones than the circumstances justify." Parker told the subcommittee that J-M and the insulators' union had helped draft the Fenwick bill…
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 11, 1968
D. Poutiatine's Call Report on Eternit Germany's Fiber Tests and Opposition to Caution Labels (1968)
…about which they, and others, are perfectly aware." They felt "it is unnecessary to advertise its possible danger to labor unions or to dockworkers who only handle bags of asbestos, but do not work with it."
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 16, 1973
F. J. Solon Jr. to J-M Managers on the Reopening of the OSHA Asbestos Standard (1973)
…the 2 fibers per cubic centimeter limit would take effect in July 1976, unless OSHA came under "undue pressure." He writes that the unions and Dr. Selikoff were attacking the 2-fiber standard as "phony" because…
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Government report · WARD Documents · August 1978
National Cancer Institute, Asbestos and Health: An Annotated Bibliography of Public and Professional Education Materials (1978)
…professionals and the public, each with a short description and where to get it. Entries come from government agencies, unions, professional groups and industry, among them several from Johns-Manville's Health, Safety and Environment Department…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 10, 1969
Stanley Green to F. L. Pundsack on Selling a J-M Safety Mask Through Insulation Contractors (1969)
…Burleson saw "one possible disadvantage: it would be awkward for contractors in dealing with unions on mask usage if they also were in the business of selling them," but later sent word that he could market…
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Company document · WARD Documents · May 12, 1981
Hart and Wedgeworth v. Armstrong Cork, Motion to Compel, Defendants' Supplemental Answers and Expert Witness CVs (1981)
…kept smoking, and misused products: some would "wrap up in such cloth" to shield themselves from welding, and others "used asbestos cloth and other products as pillows or blankets." They blamed the unions, the Navy, the…
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Article · WARD Documents · April 22, 1922
Walter A. Rukeyser, Asbestos Mining and Milling in Quebec, Part II (1922)
…among them the Asbestos Corporation of Canada, the Bell mine, the Black Lake Asbestos & Chrome Co. and Johns-Manville. On the workforce, Rukeyser writes that the men were nearly all French-Canadians, that unions "do not…