#occupational_health_and_safety

Working conditions on construction sites in #Qatar : the role of #Bouygues and #Vinci
▻http://multinationales.org/Working-conditions-on-construction

After Brazil this year, it will be Qatar’s turn to host football’s greatest ritual in 2022. Giant construction projects - stadiums, metros, highways, and hotels - are already adding up. French businesses Bouygues and Vinci have won huge contracts in the country. The problem? Qatar has come under heavy fire from the International Labor Organization, international #unions, and #NGOs such as Amnesty International and #human_rights Watch because of the deplorable working conditions and other human (...)

#Investigations

/ Qatar, #Workers'_Rights_and_Freedom_of_Association, #Occupational_Health_and_Safety, Bouygues, Vinci, #Building_and_Public_Works, #Qatari_Diar, Confédération générale du travail (CGT), #work_conditions, #workers'_rights, #occupational_health_and_safety, #decent_work, human (...)

#Confédération_générale_du_travail_CGT_ #infrastructure #migrants #corporate_social_responsibility
« ►http://www.amnesty.org/fr/library/asset/MDE22/011/2013/fr/aacb4f2e-a641-4c9a-ae66-ddca697f19ad/mde220112013fr.pdf »
« ►http://publi.vinci.com/vinci/vinci-rapport-annuel-2013.pdf »
« ►http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_239842.pdf »
« ►http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/06/12/building-better-world-cup-0 »
« ►http://www.bouygues.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/COMPTE-RENDU-AVEC-QUESTIONS-REPONSES-Site-internet1.pdf »
« ►http://www.franceinfo.fr/emission/le-plus-france-info/2013-2014/qatar-un-pays-en-chantier-au-mepris-des-droits-des-ouvriers-11-25-2013-09 »
« ►http://www.bouygues.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/cp-bouygues-construction-qatar-12.04.12-fr.pdf »
« ►http://www.ituc-csi.org/nouveau-rapport-sur-les?lang=fr »
« ►http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/nyregion/workers-at-nyus-abu-dhabi-site-face-harsh-conditions.html?_r=0 »

Toxic pollution: chemical giants free from all liability?
▻http://multinationales.org/Toxic-pollution-chemical-giants

‘Manufacturers must answer for the poisoning caused by PCBs!’ demands the Coalition against #Bayer Dangers, a German organisation that has fought against the abuse of the German chemical multinational corporation for 35 years. This article was originally published in French. Translation: Jocelyn Timperley. PCBs – polychlorinated biphenyls – are industrial products used from the 1930s up to the 1980s in transformers, seals, paints and flooring. They are highly chlorinated organic compounds, and (...)

#News

/ #Germany, #Monsanto, Bayer, #Chemicals, #environmental_impact, #regulations_and_norms, #Environmental_Health, #occupational_health_and_safety, #corporate_social_responsibility, corporate legal (...)

#corporate_legal_responsibility
“▻http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html”
“►http://www.bayer.com/en/asm_2014_countermotions_en.pdfx”

How #Areva lets its workers die in #Niger
▻http://www.multinationales.org/How-Areva-lets-its-workers-die-in

French people get light and heating thanks, in part, to the work of hundreds of miners in Niger, who have spent 20 to 30 years of their lives extracting uranium for nuclear company Areva. The uranium is then sent to #France to serve as fuel for the 58 French nuclear reactors. These miners suffer and die because of the effects of radiation exposure, in an atmosphere of total indifference. Any form of acknowledgement of their ills as occupational diseases seems out of the question. How long (...)

#Investigations

/ Niger, Areva, #Extractive_Industries, #Nuclear_Energy, #Extractive_Industries, #Occupational_Health_and_Safety, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, #corporate_legal_responsibility, #corporate_social_responsibility, #occupational_health_and_safety, #Environmental_Health, (...)

#work-related_cancers #Energy
▻http://niger.areva.com/EN/niger-174/the-health-and-safety-of-workers-and-the-local-population.html
▻http://www.sst-nucleaire-chimie.org
►http://www.asso-sherpa.org
▻http://niger.areva.com/niger/liblocal/docs/F_AREVA%20et%20Niger.pdf
►http://vimeo.com/8547737

Working conditions in #China: #Apple doesn’t keep its promises
▻http://www.multinationales.org/article233.html

This article was originally published by Basta! in French. Translation: Jean Petit. One year later, nothing has changed. Unpaid overtime, non-compliance with the most basic occupational safety rules, no possibility of setting up independent unions... In the Asian factories owned by #Foxconn, the Taiwanese Apple subcontractor, labor law doesn’t exist. After a number of Chinese workers committed suicide, the awful working conditions on iPhone and iPad assembly lines became widely publicized, (...)

#News

/ #IT_industries, China, Apple, Foxconn, #Electronic_industries, #Corporate_Social_Responsibility_and_Ethical_Investment, #workers'_rights, #work_conditions, #decent_work, #occupational_health_and_safety, #supply_chain, corporate social (...)

#corporate_social_responsibility
▻http://www.bastamag.net/Conditions-de-travail-Apple-ne
►http://www.lesinrocks.com/2013/08/08/actualite/foxconn-rescapee-tentative-suicide-une-employee-raconte-son-experience-f
▻http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-463.html
▻http://www.epi.org/blog/broken-promises-continuing-worker-abuses
▻http://www.fairlabor.org/sites/default/files/documents/reports/foxconn_investigation_report.pdf

#Auchan: some promises, but no compensation for Bangladeshi workers
▻http://www.multinationales.org/article197.html

Six months ago, the Rana Plaza building and its five textile factories collapsed, resulting in 1.133 deaths and even more injured. One of the brands for which they were working is Auchan, but the firm still refuses to contribute to the compensation fund. Because of this, the company was nominated in the “Dirty hands, deep pockets” category of the 2013 Pinocchio award. This award is organised by Friends of the Earth France to “name and shame” companies with poor social and environmental records. (...)

#News

/ #Garment, #Bangladesh, #Retail, #Garment_Industry, #Retail, Auchan, #supply_chain, #corporate_social_responsibility, #social_impact, #work_conditions, #occupational_health_and_safety, decent (...)

#decent_work
▻http://www.peuples-solidaires.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CP-Indemnisation13092013.pdf