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As regards product accidents, which become an object
of public concern, RENGO reached a consensus on strengthening
the monitoring function of trade unions toward keeping similar
accidents from happening again at the 13th central executive
committee on 14 September. Concretely all the trade unions will
rebuild the labour-management council system and begin consultations
with the management on establishing safety health at the workplace,
ensuring safety of products and service and eradicating social
accidents.
1. Awareness
of problems
Serious accidents and incidents
have recently continued to happen. They injure not only lives
of workers but also those of neighbors and of product users and
damage their property.
The management and employers
who have made light of ensuring safety and health and quality
while global competition got keen must take on the responsibility
for these serious accidents. However, the trade unions' responsibility
for safety health matter at the workplace should be regarded
as important. Moreover, trade unions must undertake social responsibility
as professional morality for giving a guarantee of quality of
products and service and of function safety made by union members
to users.
The investigation of the
accidents and incidents shows that trade unions have not carried
out basic activities fully. For examples, working safety health
regulations are not kept strictly, safety health committee is
not held regularly and labour-management council is not enough.
In addition it is necessary
to organize trade unions and establish labour-management council
in order to ensure both safety and social responsibility of enterprises
although some enterprises which caused accidents have no trade
unions.
2. Implementation
for tackling the establishment of social responsibility
All the trade
unions must tackle the followings and perform social responsibility
for ensuring occupational safety and health, ensuring security
of products and services, preventing social accidents and making
companies keep social rules.
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(1) |
All of affiliates will make
an effort to establish social responsibility of both companies
and trade unions for ensuring security, preventing accidents
and preserving the environment. |
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(2) |
All the trade unions will
rebuild a labour-management council system and confer on establishment
of occupational safety and health, security of their products
and service and eradication of social accidents. They will hold
safety and health committee regularly. |
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All the trade unions will
proceed with monitoring social responsibility of companies for
preservation of the environment and the fair trade, and establish
social responsibility of both companies and trade unions. |
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In cooperation with the affiliates
RENGO will put reports on accidents together, make an effort
to keep similar accidents from happening again and set about
monitoring social responsibility. RENGO will reinforce social
role of the above as trade unions. |
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