The ICWUC Center for Worker Health and Safety Education has had 5 employees retire over the last year. Due to the pandemic, these retirees were never given a proper goodbye. Center Director Shari Glines-Allen...
The ICWUC Executive Board met this morning and voted unanimously to name Lance Heasley President. Lance becomes the 8th President since the International Chemical Workers Union was originally Chartered in 1944. Lance came on...
How did you observe Workers Memorial Day 2021? “Those that forget history are condemned to repeat it” (George Santayana, American philosopher, The Life of Reason) We observe Workers Memorial Day every year on April...
The ICWUC Center for Health and Safety Education delivers hands-on chemical emergency response, hurricane disaster, plume classes, general disaster response, several Covid-19 response classes, and related training through its Cincinnati Center, online, and regional...
April 2021 For the past year COVID-19 has consumed our lives, and rightly so. ICWUC has fought side-by-side with other unions, the AFL-CIO, COSH groups and other community-based groups to get the CDC to...
Dear friends: This is a historic moment for our nation. In November, we have an opportunity to harness the anger and the fear that so many Americans are experiencing, unite around our shared values,...
I want to share something with the membership of the entire International Chemical Workers Union Council Of The United Food And Commercial Workers Union and my own Local 121C thereof. Most of you do...
Summertime means higher temperatures and the increase for heat related injury or illness. Many of us work in excessively hot environments which now is compounded by hotter ambient temperatures. No matter if its’ work...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) vs. Flu How does COVID-19 compare with the Flu? – COVID-19 is more contagious than the flu (each confirmed case infects 2.2 others). The flu kills about 0.1% of the people that...
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched a new webpage marking the 50th anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the landmark...