Linked with Karen Silkwood – USA (1946 – 1974), with List of Trade Unions worldwide, and with The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor.
Last October, Clean Water Action – and all who care about a safer and more just world – lost a close friend and visionary partner to cancer. Tony Mazzocchi was a leader in the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW, which merged with the paperworkers in 1999 to form a union called PACE). He was one of the first to call attention to the injustices of an industrial system that endangers workers’ health both on the job and in the community. He believed – and acted effectively on the belief – that the path to solutions lies in building alliances between workers, environmentalists and community residents to transform conditions that ultimately threaten all of humanity. His tireless advocacy over five decades spurred creation of the modern workplace health and safety movement, sparked environmental groups’ increased emphasis on health harm from toxic chemicals, and forged labor-environmental partnerships that produced many of those movements’ most important victories … (full text).
Union Scrapper about: A Review of The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor.
He said: « We’re the only industrial nation in the world where if you strike the employer can replace you with scabs—permanently. That’s not a right to strike. That’s a right to commit suicide. (on ‘We Want to Redefine What Society Is All About’: An Interview With Tony Mazzocchi on the Birth of the Labor Party, » Z-Magazine, February 01, 1997″).
Download the audio-Interview with Les Leopold.
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Tony Mazzocchi – USA (1926 – 2002)
at left/above the book – at right/down honoring Karen Silkwood
Tony Mazzocchi, A Video Tribute, 8.12 min, Nov. 13, 2007.
The book telling the life and times of Tony Mazzocchi, same also on labor notes.
He said also: « When you build a big movement from down below, regardless of who’s in the White House, you can bring about change ». (on Anthony Mazzocchi, 76, Dies, » New York Times, October 9, 2000).
Occupational Safety and Health Act.
Anthony Mazzocchi (June 13, 1926 – October 5, 2002) was an American labor leader. He was a high elected official of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union OCAW, serving as vice president from 1977 to 1988, and as secretary-treasurer from 1988 to 1991. He was a mentor to Karen Silkwood, a co-founder of the Labor Party, and credited by President Richard Nixon as being the primary force behind enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. For his efforts, he was called the « Rachel Carson of the American workplace » … (wikipedia).
And he said: Movements grow in desperate times. We are being born, (on Tony Mazzocchi, 76; Workplace Safety Advocate, Political Activist, » Los Angeles Times, October 8 2002).
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