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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 Bannon comp ment supportedthe nies witnesses said Star Medical Repertor| Bob Taylor asked Who's four going to take care of my children former The year Bendix Corp. worker told the Royal Commission on Ad - cancer although cancer the arca { This is McCann said has ministry Robinson commi sion ministry ministry study of deceased deceased Bendix although he didn't workers to seewhy said whydied She high asbestos |, operation of the company story the and and union but UAW cials lates the comm bestos he has a disease called don't asbestosis and no one will morning the govern- hire him since Bendix closed F . I'm just time bombhe timohny ave DNAsbestosis baid DNAsbestosis DNAsbestosis is obstruc- tion caused by breathingin industrying hearing particlesasbestos royarloyal Friday's commission hearing Win passion . dsor City Hall heard cerned Windsor Brophy ate appeals from former Bbeendix workers and widows 1 sitingsitting here Bendix McCann his voice cracking mine HE CALLED testimony testimony senior Ontario of labor officials bullshit before Assistant Minutes/ Minister of Labor Deputy Robinson said she benot keep wonder why we the ministry the don't trust ment : also came under fire - witnesses upset about | sion this the first thehyave input- have heard of this study and had no . aT hear union timony ; schools i tos in Windsor Government is the faithful bedmate of 4. Bandik submitted industrying brief to the commissliaws on any when safety the economic Council 31: : diesel own month survey smoke hazard Canadian Rock Salt _ IT ATTACKED statements . inaccurate and misleading in he No one from Bendix ssddeteatilaediemlpBleeodynedrix where it was occassionta over health fighftiingghting union McCann health safety protection who was health and safety representative for , UAW Local 195 said senidr 4miniatryLocal inspector Hugh . Nelsonsat on his ass for emnoforrecintghan four yearswithout Ber's Ber's prodvuiocleatdioniss sshaofweitnygshowing Nelson ts He produced doquinen signed or- ders in 1966 to clean up ards at Bendix and then signed the same orders in i1970 UAW @i > NUMBER UAW hesses attacked Bendix perment taken btyhat only 10 wertkever workers of Bendix Bendix wertkever exposed to asbestoEvsery office workers they dusty plants areas walked through dusty the ar"eas The GLOBE & MAIL January 6 1981 year employee of Bendix becomes 13th victim of asbestos ' WINDSOR CP - A year man has become the 13th victim to die of an asbestos 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 almost 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 7? 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. asbestos Dunn have died of ed diseases Mr. Byrne said Mr. Dunn asked him to check with the board to see whether he was eligible for benefits After long negotiations the board decided Mr. Dunn's illness made him suitable for compensation and he received payment retroactive 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. Byrne 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 s