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FILE NAME: Allied Signal Bendix (ASB) DATE: 1981 Jan 6 & 1989 DOC#: ASB020 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Articles RE Bendix Employees and Asbestos By Brian Bnnon tarMadkaIRapartar Bob Taylor aakod: "Who's going to taka care of my four children?" The 36-year-oW former Bendix Corp. worker told the Royal Commission on Atbestos he has a disease called asbcstosis and no one will ur )iin him sinceBendixclosed. i!T m just a time bomb," hie ^ le id .r, * ^ Asbcstosis is a lungobstruc tion caused by breathing in particles of asbestos. \ Friday's one-day royal commission bearing at Win*. . dsor City Hall heard passion ate appeals from former Bendixworkers and widows^ "These widows shouldnH be sitting here," said former Bendix wotkar Jack McCann, Ids voioeorecktng.i HE CALLED taadmbny by senior Ontario, ministry of labor officials "bullshit. Minutes before,-Assistant 'Deputy Minister; af> Labbr Ann Robinson said the.bejjieved "Bendix it. Bendbtworkef ^Toihmy tiPuwU ths ago with kmen's iGoi found ' HP rlated cancer, although he d--idn't. 'jwOrlt^ tH high-isbestos !:'*$* i'4 ment supported the comflfc- nies,witnessesurid " .-a Robinson told the comnms- sion hermmUtfrhassUhida study of ^deceased ^Wm Ix workers to see why they (bed. She saidjbe has the niUbg- operatkvwf the company 1 "This is thav story," and onion,' but UAW oflj- xMcCann said, Vend people cials later,told the commit wonder why we don't trust sion this |h e first they hafe nhe ministry?" ? ` heard of this study and haift \ ln the morning, thegovern- had no i n p u t . , >J ment also ante under Are by Robinson .a m g itif a y to ' witnesses upset aboutasbetr , hear the wHmi tNiiidWy. ' f itos in Windsor schools. ' L ' \ Bendi* subfiittetfciprtttn Government is "the .eve&$,-. brief to the commissiondeny- faithfulbedmate" ofindnstry^ingi it broh^any lain and l when .safety issues are con it doSed iuuM Win icwerinwad., msaid Ji<m Bv.ro|p/hy/VKw p r plants^aMWMmcau|c head ofthe Windsor Oocupa^t of economiawaMbfls, nit tional Safety , and-.Health theasbestoscontroversy. 4 Council: V. ,, IT ATTACKED. UAW WORKERS had to4o their statements* "inaccurate own 18-month survey of the and misleading." j f diesel smoke hazard at the , No one from Bendix CanadianRock Salt mine, he showed vp Fridays \ said. Of 21 claijtu to the WoT- Unions V ykqw 'ltijierom tlon Boat tanoe from Wyeth Co t Tor eaegikdr jjsbestosis it ^ B e n ^ f ^ g t w have health iss ' M tnM pi ,, McCann said; 'p l e a c h irf* many Occamtoas^ fighting the union over health and safety protection. \ 1 rv McCann, who was health -*and safety representative for. UAW Local 19S, said senidr ' ministry inspector Hugh ,jetton "sat on hit am" far' more,than fouryears without enforcing Bet.,u;'s violations ofsafetylaws. i .c.i,,He prodneedsttoqtfinenfc - -howiRg, Nelson-signed or ders in 1966 to clean up haz ards at Bendix and then signed the same orpin in .,1970. ( ) A NUMBER nesses attacked uken. by Bendix ministry that only 10 of Benaix workers w< exposed to?.'asbestfli, office worken^^add'' th . walked through,dusty qreas ofthe plants. I The GLOBE & MAIL January 6, 1981 35-year-old employee of Bendix becomes 13th victim of asbestos WINDSOR (CP) -- A 35-year-old man has become the 13th victim to die of an asbestos-related cancer after working at one of the two Windsor plants of Bendix Corp., the man's,union representative and closest friend says. Tommy Dunn, who worked for alm ost 12 years in the welding department of one of the plants, died on Saturday. Doctors operated on Mr. Dunn in December, 1979, for mesothelioma, a rare form of inoperable cancer linked to asbestos fibres. They discovered two tumors in an ad vanced stage in his lung and gave him a maximum of two years to live. Rick Byrne, former plant chair man for Local 195 of the United Auto Workers, who worked with Mr.' Dunn for 11 years, and other union negotiators have taken the cases of 19 Bendix workers to the Workmen's Compensation Board. Thirteen of the 19, including Mr. Dunn, have died of asbestos-relat ed diseases. Mr. Byrne said Mr. Dunn asked him to check with the board to see whether he was eligible for bene fits. After long negotiations, the board decided Mr. Dunn's illness made him suitable for compensa tion and he received payment re troactive to November, 1979. However. Bendix. which uses asbestos in the manufacture of automotive brake linings, has never acknowledged that it was directly responsible for Mr. Dunn's illness. Mr. Byrne said Mr. Dunn was one of those concerned that Bendix did not completely comply with a 1966 Government request to clean up its plants. ' " They were supposed to clean it up in 1966 and Tommy didn't know why they didn't clean it up.'' Now, however, Mr. Byme said that although the union has made some headway, negotiations will be tougher because Bendix closed its two Windsor plants last August. "What can you change now -- they're gone."