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...
Health and safety are not always at the top of a Local Union’s priority list. Still, ICWU Local 45C’s safety committee is making safety a priority, especially during their Safe and Sound Week festivities....
John Morawetz from the ICWUC Health & Safety Department testified for the ICWUC and UFCW on June 4 at a Senate Homeland Security Committee roundtable. We support a multi-year reauthorization of the Chemical Facility...
The ICWUC Center for Worker Health & Safety Education would like to acknowledge Local 45c for making this happen!