Struggling for a wage for more than a decade BHOPAL, 31 JULY 2003. The Bhopali women’s stationery workers’ union has won another court victory in its long struggle to gain a fair wage for a fair day’s work. On 18 December, 2002, the Labour Court had ruled that the union’s fifty women members should be [...]
News of our demise has been greatly exaggerated. (Well we should know, we put the news out in the first place.) Welcome to the new Bhopal.Net, bringing you as ever the latest news, gossip, articles and campaign actions from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. Still ironing out bugs, so please be patient. Meanwhile, [...]
Faced with the failure of “Responsible Care” those PR boys have come good. Their big idea? “Really Responsible Care” $120,000,000 could do a lot of good to a lot of people. But instead of, for example, providing clean drinking water to the people of Bhopal, or creating a safe environment for the trailer folk of [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. TUESDAY 22 JULY Eighteen members of Congress have sent a letter to Dow Chairman William Stavropoulos demanding that his company assume liability for the wrongdoings of Union Carbide (its 100% subsidiary) in Bhopal. The Congresspersons, led by Representatives Frank Pallone and Dennis Kucinich are demanding that Dow provide medical rehabilitation and economic reparations [...]
