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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1974-1977 DOC JMA255 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letters to United Steelworkers & M from Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical with BC Notes 7/6/98 7/5/98 Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical 1977 letter is from Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Medical Director Hughes poor copy it 22064 KAISER ALUMINUM KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION February 1974 Mr. A. W. Kienitz President Local 338 United Steelworkers of 14015 East Trent America Spokane Washington 99215 Dear Mr. Kienitz This will confirm our understanding reached during local negotiations on the following 1 Provide two 2 pair of coveralls per Fireman per year This will not be considered as a precedent 2. Clean and maintain the Guard uniforms and shirts 3. Provide adequate fire and first training for the Guards and Corporels Very truly yours KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION Confirmed R. . D" n Industrial Relations Superintendent President this this to A) TRENTWOOD WORKS SPOKANE WASHINGTON 002 2206C ae ALE I Gt adh tM fo te Sieg August 2 1977 Dr. Paul Kotin Vice President Manville Corporation Greenwood Plaza Denver CO 80217 Dear Paul First of all I want to tell you how much Bob Archer and I appreciate your thoughtfulness in sharing with us the material that you have prepared to implement sputum cytology for asbestos employees This plan is very well worked out and will be of great value to us in planning the program for the surveillance of workers exposed to coal tar pitch volatiles in our aluminum smelters In response to your inquiry on work clothes I enclose the results of a survey done in a group of our plants early this year in preparation for labor negotiations with the Steelworkers completed in June I am told that this did not evolve as a major issue after all so that the situation has not changed materially since the survey In essence we only provide work clothes in a very few special situations but we subsidize the purchase of gloves at some plants I should point out however that only one reporting plant at Gramercy Louisiana is really in the chemical business I hope that this may be helpful although it is essentially negative information Looking forward to seeing you in Denver in October Very truly yours gw Attachment