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FILE NAME Allied Signal Bendix ASB DATE 1981 DOC ASB020 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Articles - Bitter Workers Blame Bendix < By Brian Bannon supported cor ment the nies witnesssaeids Star Medical Reporter Bob Taylor asked Who's althoaulgthough whyBendix gcoihngildtroetnake care ofmy four formerwork asbestos she The year Bendix worker told the Royal Commission on As bestos he has a disease called asbestosis and no one will hire him since Bendix closed Baid just the goverbn-y have Baid time bombhe testimony ip Asbestosis obstruc tion caused by in breathing in commission comision particlesof asbheesatroisngroyal } industrying Friday's Friday's safety Locaue commission Win hearing passion cerned Windsor Brophy . dsor City ate appealsworkers fromwidos former economistoons Bendix workers comma- Robinson told the i Compensation sion her ministry has study of deceasedstarted although he didn't workers to see She said co operation the company story This j is the and union but UAW McCann said and people don't wonder why we . don't trust the ministry and morning - the cials later the commis | sion this the first they have heard of this study have had no inputs the : ment also came under fire Robinson testimony itos witnesses upset about itos uniuonionn testimony itos itos in Windsor schools 3. Bendix submitted : Government is theever . brief to the + faithful bedmate industrying it bro^te when issues are con industrying saying it . writion Win- cerned Jim Brophy Locaue of economieconosmistotons oons tional Safety and Health Council am | IT ATTACKED UAW shouldn'tformer had do WORKERS their statementsas inaccurate own month survey of the and misleading diesel smoke hazard the Canadian Rock Salt mine he No one from Bendix testimony of senior Ontario: ministry labor officials bullshit said Unions also stance from management DMepiuntuytes health issue j before Wyeth Co. and Minister of Labor said she be Bendix not keep McCann where bocassions it was fifgighhttinigng health the union over health safety protection McCann who was health anadnd safety representative for , i UAW Localins1p9e5ctsoarid senide Hugh minNielsstorny ~ sat on his ass for four without more than four enforcing Bet's Bet's yiolations produced Moquments vans He Moquments ders in1966 clean up haz- ards at Bendix and then signed the same orders in 1970 a3 4: heses ^' NUMBER QUAW hesses attacked taken by Bendix and ministry that only 10 office workers they walked through dusty areas the plants dusty areas 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 *? s 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 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