http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/1354/0 en http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/no-accident-westray-20-years-after/10848 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Law to criminally prosecute corporations is in place, but two decades later Canada is no safer a place to work </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img_4681.jpg" alt="" title="Some of the draggermen tasked with recovering bodies after the May 9th, 1992, blast at the Westray mine. [Photo: Miles Howe]" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>New Glasgow, Nova Scotia &ndash; An early morning ceremony to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Westray mine disaster today paid respect to the 26 coal miners killed in the coal dust-sparked methane blast.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/no-accident-westray-20-years-after/10848" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/no-accident-westray-20-years-after/10848#comments Miles Howe Direct Action Labour corporate crime criminal negligence Labour mining Westray Workplace Safety Wed, 09 May 2012 23:49:05 +0000 Miles Howe 10848 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/events/3185 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date-and-time"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Wed Apr 28</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-city"> <div class="field-label">city:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Halifax, Nova Scotia </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-venue"> <div class="field-label">Venue:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Province House </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-organizer-contact"> <div class="field-label">organizer contact:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Canadian Labour Congress (Tony Tracey: ttracey@clc-ctc.ca) </div> </div> </div> <p>April 28 is Day of Mourning for Workers Killed on the Job. Barb Byers from CLC Ottawa will be in town for this.</p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/events/3185#comments Labour Labour Mourning Workplace Safety Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:52:32 +0000 maxwellc 3185 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca