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Labour

Labour Notes

Huge increase in
U.S. child labour

According to the U.S. Department of
Labour’s General Accounting Office

(GAO), writes Vector Union Report, child -

labour law violations south of the border
rose by 250 per cent between 1983 and 1989.
A GAO report presented to a congressional
forum says there were more than 24,000
violations in 1989 alone, including 2,000
cases of children under the legal minimum
age of 14 working, and 15,500 instances of
children under 16 being forced to work
longer hours than the federal law allows.
GAO education director William Gainer
pointed out that only “a small percentage of
the nation’s workplaces are inspected,”
which makes it impossible to detail the even
more widespread abuse of children’s rights.
In 1987-88, 59 minors in the U.S. were
killed and 128,000 injured at work. In 1989,
there were 6,500 instances listed of minors
under 18 working on dangerous equipment.

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Thirty-seven of the 59 deaths resulted in
fines totalling $27,364 levied against the
offending companies — an average of $740
per child.

AFL-CIO leader
urges conversion

Lane Kirkland, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labour-Congress of
Industrial Organizations, had some interest-
ing things to say at the recent executive
council meeting in Bal Harbour, Florida.

The following is from his statement on
economic conversion:

“The easing of Cold War tensions pro-
vides us the opportunity to begin converting
the defence industry into civilian uses.
Without the proper planning, however, we
risk squandering the opportunity. The
AFL-CIO wants Congress to provide ade-
quate planning and to look at the best pos-
sible ways to use the defence industry’s
considerable resources, technology, and
worker skills.

“Precisely because the defence industry
was built to meet the government’s military

Abortion rights
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Public meeting

requirements, the government has a unique
responsibility to assure that these resources
are effectively converted.

“ The AFL-CIO urges the creation of a
national commission to direct the conver-
sion of military facilities to civilian use. We
want this commission to have labour,
industry, and government representatives
and we want it backed up with the funds it
takes to do the job. Business needs help with
conversion and workers need training, re-
training and protections against unem-
ployment and loss of health benefits ....”

On the issue of health benefits, Kirkland
also touched on the need for something
more substantial than the “chaotic and dis-
criminatory” private plans that permit tens
of millions of Americans to lack sufficient,
or any, coverage.

“There are merits in exploring the expe-
rience of other countries. We are the only
major industrial country that has no system.
There is a vast body of experience around
the world in operating and managing sys-
tems of national health insurance and
national health care — the German sys-
tem, the Canadian system. And they work

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