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United Kingdom
TUC liability/ corporate responsibility webpage:
www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/index.cfm?mins=33
listing of TUC documents on or containing information on safety, corporate liability and corporate responsibility.
Centre for Corporate Accountability:
www.corporateaccountability.org
a primarily UK based organisation that aims "to increase the
accountability of companies and their senior officers who cause
death, injury and disease." CCA has created web-based news pages with
links to articles in UK national and local newspapers on subjects
including work-related deaths, inquests and manslaughter prosecutions.
TGWU corporate crime webpage:
www.tgwu.org.uk/Templates/Campaign.asp?Action=Display&NodeID=89511&int1stParentNodeID=42437&int2ndParentNodeID=42467
Corporate Watch:
www.corporatewatch.org.uk
a radical research and publishing group that supports "grassroots and
direct activism against large corporations, particularly
multinationals. Our approach is to investigate, corporate structures
and the system that supports them more broadly, rather than solely
criticising the individual companies for bad behaviour."
Simon Jones Memorial Campaign:
www.simonjones.org.uk
excellent, vocal and direct action oriented campaign started by the
friends and family of Simon Jones, killed on his first day of work as a
casual dock worker. The site contains excellent advice for anyone
suffering a workplace bereavement.
Health and Safety Executive:
www.hse-databases.co.uk/prosecutions
"naming and shaming" site. The HSE public register of convictions site
"gives details of all prosecution cases taken by HSE, since 1 April
1999, which resulted in a conviction." It is almost impossible to find
the information you want so be persistent.
International
Hazards news:
http://www.hazards.org/news/index.htm
listing of the latest news from Hazards magazine on the corporate safety criminals.
Victorian Trades Hall Council:
www.vthc.org.au/anthonycarrick
corporate killing site. The VTHC site contains details of a highly
effective campaign waged by Australian unions in their quest for a
corporate killing law.
Industrial Deaths Support and Advocacy, IDSA Inc:
www.idsa.com.au
"is a non-profit-making voluntary association whose charter is to
provide emotional support and practical assistance to the families of
those who have lost their lives as a result of occupational accidents
or disease." IDSA has good links with unions and have been prominent in
Australian campaigns against corporate killing.
Bosswatch:
bosswatch.labor.net.au
BossWatch is the first concerted attempt by Australian unions to map
the corporate landscape and track the linkages between major employers.
It is a resource open to all unions sponsored by the Labor Council of
NSW.
China Labour Bulletin: health and safety news:
iso.china-labour.org.hk/iso/classified_news.adp?category_id=2
set up in 1994, seeks to promote independent trade unionism and provide
information on the activities of the official All-China Federation of
Trade Unions, as well as attempts by workers to organise outside it.
Corpwatch:
www.corpwatchindia.org
recently launched website keeping an eye on TNCs in India.
Corporate Europe Observatory:
www.corporateeurope.org
"a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to
democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the
economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups."
United States
AFL-CIO:
www.aflcio.org/corporateamerica/research/accountability.cfm
corporate accountability organisations listing.
The Multinational Monitor:
multinationalmonitor.org
tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on
the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor
union issues and the environment.
Multinationals Resource Center:
resourcesfirst.org
provides free information to Southern countries exploited by the worst
abuses of multinational corporations rampant pollution, oppressive
labor practices, exploitative trading arrangements.
Focus on the Corporation:
www.essential.org/monitor/focus/focus.index.html
features ¿reports and comments critically on corporate actions and
plans, from particular abuses to broad trends. Also see the authors
web-based guide to corporate misbehaviour, Corporate Predators.
Environmental Research Foundation:
www.rachel.org/home_eng.htm
provides "news and resources for environmental justice."
Public Information Network:
www.endgame.org
the mission of the Public Information Network is to provide research
services and training to citizens who are working for corporate and
governmental accountability, and who are committed to socially just and
ecologically sustainable societies.
Corporate Accountability Project:
www.corporations.org
CAP has corporate dirt archives and lots of other resources useful to
those concerned about the activities of multinational companies.
Labor Notes:
www.labornotes.org
the voice of union activists who want to "put the movement back in the labor movement" through rank and file democracy.
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD):
www.poclad.org
is an organisation of "activists who have spent the last several years
researching corporate, labour and legal histories, rethinking our past
organizing strategies and talking with people about democracy
movements."
Impropaganda review:
www.prwatch.org/improp/index.html
a rogues gallery of industry front groups and anti-environmental think tanks.
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