FILE NAME: Hampshire (HAMP) DATE: 1991 Feb 1 DOC#: HAMP133 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Hampshire's Answers to Contentious Interrogatories / ^-iAJA^jiXv\<y ^ wCt - INTERROGATORY NO. 36: Have you ever conducted, or had conducted dust level monitoring in your own plants?

FILE NAME: Hampshire (HAMP) DATE: 1993 Nov 23 DOC#: HAMP113 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Hampshire's Supplemental Responses to Requests for Admissions l had no opportunity or cause to issue any such warning.

FILE NAME: Welding (WELD) DATE: 1993 DOC#: WELD025 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Hobart Brothers Answers to Interrogatories ROBERT JACOBS THOMAS C.

FILE NAME DuPont DUP DATE 1993 DOC DUP091 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Supplemental Answers to Interrogatories by D.P.

FILE NAME: Allied Signal Bendix (ASB) DATE: 1994 Aug 19 DOC#: ASB098 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Email Exchange Between Tom Rancour & Paul Haas RE Asbestos Sample Results Haas, Paul From: To: Subject: Date: Rancour, Tom Haas, Paul , .

FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1996 DOC TALC045 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article - Asbestos Exposure and Ovarian Fiber Burden AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 435 4319996 Asbestos Exposure and Ovarian Fiber Burden Debra S.

FILE NAME: Ford (FD) DATE: 1998 May 4 DOC#: FD032 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Deposition of Arnold Anderson CAUSE NO. 94-007165 STEPHEN F.

FILE NAME Allied Signal Bendix ASB DATE 1999 July DOC ASB042 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Report - Asbestos & The Struggle for Worker Health and Safety at Bendix Automotive From Dust to DUST to Dust tttttttttttttttttttttttton00 tttttttttttton0 tttttttttttttttttttttttton00 tttttttttttton0 tttttttttttton0 tttttttttttton0 From Dust to DUST to Dust Asbestos & The Struggle for Worker Health and Safety at Bendix Automotive Robert Storey and Wayne Lewchuk Labour Studies Programme McMaster University July 1999 forcoming Labour Travail On the morning of June 20 1980 members of the executive of Local 195 United Automobile Workers of America representing workers at Bendix Automotive in Windsor Ontario were called to a surprise meeting with management officials A few months earlier the company had closed its oldest facility on Argyle Road and there were rumours that it was planning to do the same with its remaining plant on Prince Road These rumours were based in a heated controversy that had swirled around Bendix's Windsor operations since the 1970s when questions regarding the health and safety hazards associated with working with asbestos began being raised The initial unease some Bendix workers felt about asbestos turned into fear and anger when in January of 1980 a young Bendix worker Tommy Dunn was diagnosed with mesothelioma - a rare and fatal form of cancer associated with exposure to asbestos Suddenly asbestos at Bendix was a potentially deadly issue Bendix responded to workers initial health concerns by instituting new procedures and processes aimed at restricting the production and the circulation of asbestos dust They agreed reluctantly to the presence of a time appointed health and safety representative whose task it was to inspect the production processes and make recommendations for changes However Dunn's serious illness and increasing local and national media attention placed new pressures on the company As members of the union seated themselves at the table that morning they had misgivings about what might transpire Management officials lost little time informing the union delegates that the Prince Road plant was being shut down In fact the company spokesman stated it was being closed at that very moment Workers at the plant were being told that they had ten minutes to clean out their lockers and vacate the building Closing the plant was unfortunate the Bendix official concluded but a thorough examination of its operations had convinced management that it was no longer economically viable With that the meeting was adjourned This paper will analyze how asbestos dust came to be recognized by workers as a life threatening health hazard and the developments that led up to the closure of Bendix's operations in Windsor It will be argued that the closure was not a straightforward market decision based on short run profit performance Rather the decision by Bendix management to vacate its base in Windsor was intricately tied to the controversy surrounding the use of asbestos in the manufacture of brakes After nearly five years of worker mobilization around the issue of asbestos and with the prospect of more employees being diagnosed with asbestos disease or illness Bendix management decided that its operations in Windsor were no longer economically socially and politically tenable The closure of Bendix's plants in Windsor illustrates the relative freedom of large corporations to make decisions with little regard for workers and workers health and safety It highlights the limited choices and avenues of protest open to workers and unions in the context of superior corporate power - particularly in the area of health and safety For their part the workers gradually came face with having to decide between their demands for a healthy work environment and maintaining their jobs The Bendix closures also point to the contradictory pressures unions face under capitalism As the asbestos crisis at Bendix deepened union officials activists and members of the Bendix negotiating committee were placed in the position of reconciling widely differing demands For reasons to be explored in more detail in what follows some workers argued against union efforts to push management on the asbestos issue while others demanded that their workplace be made safe from the hazards of this known carcinogen Union officials and negotiators were placed in the position of attempting to balance a range of health and safety demands against the overall interest of workers in keeping their jobs not only at Bendix but also at similar workplaces should Bendix set a precedent Here the choice was also between health and safety and jobs but made more complex by the need of union officials to assess the impact of their choices on the overall ability of the union to continue defending its members short and long interests Finally there is the role of the state which faces the contradictory task of providing an economic climate conducive to investor confidence and profit making while simultaneously addressing the demands of subordinate groups such as workers and unions With regard to health and safety this has entailed the state passing legislation that sought to answer the concerns of workers and unions for safe and healthy workplaces while minimizing the costs imposed on employers In short the state has the task of fashioning a solution to the contradiction between capital's drive to maxmimize profits in the short run - which leads to little concern for the health and safety of workers - and the workers need to replenish their labour power and enjoy a pleasurable quality of life In this instance none of the local provincial or federal governmental arms of the state acted in ways that satisfactorily addressed the needs of Bendix workers After years of pressure from workers unions and other interested organizations especially the New Democratic Party under Stephen Lewis the Ontario Progressive Conservative government of William Davis in 1979 enacted an occupational health and safety act that enshrined in statutory law workers rights to know participate and refuse unsafe work In the end legislative protection offered to Bendix workers via the new act was too little and too late in that it did not speak to the dynamics and consequences of plant closures or who was responsible for the term health and safety needs of workers Bendix is an important and complex story that speaks to many of the issues that confront workers on a daily and generational basis What are their choices under capitalist relations of production What are the options and avenues for action of their collective organization - the union And what is the role of the state in issues involving safety and health versus capital accumulation The following sections of this paper will address each of these issues WORKING AT BENDIX Bendix opened it doors in Windsor in the 1929 when they acquired the Argyle Road operations of Eclipse Machine of Canada a subsidiary of a parent plant in Elmira Heights New York Until the purchase Eclipse's sole product was starter drives for Ford After the change in ownership the new company Bendix Automotive added coaster and automotive brakes wheel cylinders master cylinders and bicycle brakes to its product menu - manufactured and assembled by a small yet relatively stable workforce of approximately 100 men and a few women Drum brake assembly was added in 1937 and in 1940 the company purchased drilling grinding and riveting equipment to manufacture its own lined brake shoes Asbestos was first used in 1940.

FILE NAME: Chrysler (CHR) DATE: 1992 Sept 4 DOC#: CHR089 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Deposition of William Watt with Attached Memo - 1986 Feb 5 w iM a mams a c . r c . n r u K o o n u h l n m t m a m i i <c>m m i c i i <#*h * * * o t i *2 0 44 AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM WATT STATE OF MICHIGAN J )5S COUNTY OF WAYNE ) william watt, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes and states: 1.

FILE NAME: AT&T and o ther Phone Companies (ATT) DATE: 1997 DOC#: ATTO 11 DOCUM ENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Answers to Interrogatories Complex Asbestos Litigation 1 DILLINGHAM & MURPHY, LLP JOHN N.

FILE NAME: Metropolitan Life (ML) DATE: 1996 DOC#: ML054 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Journal Article - The Asbestos TLV-Early Evidence of Inadequacy AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 30:369-370 (1 996) Commentary The Asbestos TLV: Early Evidence of Inadequacy David Egilman, md, mph and Alexander Reinert KEY WORDS: history o f medicine, asbestos research, industrial hygiene IN T R O D U C T IO N Evidence regarding the manipulation of important in formation concerning asbestos health effects has recently come to our attention.

FILE NAME: Goodyear (GY) DATE: 1999 May 4 DOC#: GY097 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Defendant GY's 5th Amended Response to Plaintiffs' Standard Interrogatories 1 IAN H.

FILE NAME: Flooring (FLR) DATE: 1995 DOC#: FLR036 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: EPA Report - Airborne Asbestos Concentrations During Buffing, Burnishing, and Stripping of Resilient Floor Tile <>EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency Research and Development National Risk Management Research Laboratory Cincinnati, OH 45268 EPA/600/SR-95/121 August 1995 Project Summary Airborne Asbestos Concentrations During Buffing, Burnishing, and Stripping of Resilient Floor Tile John R.

FILE NAME: TEA DATE: 1998 Dec 9 DOC#: TEA005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Email Rebutting Statements by Fernanda Giannasi TEADIT, trans. of letter of Dec. 9,1998 mailbox:/c%7C/!

FILE NAME Power Generation POW DATE 1990 DOC POW009 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Abstract - Published Journal Article Industrial ibromide jon in soil B 1987 d to high American Journal of Industrial Medicine 327 3319990 ?