Subject: [cwj 139] URGENT: Workers Dying from Pesticides
From: Corporate Watch in Japanese <cwj@corpwatch.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:09:29 -0800
Seq: 139
Dear friend: Here is an urgent request from workers in India who have been poisoned by a Japanese owned (Takeda Chemicals Industries Ltd) pesticide plant. Please send all relevant information on this company and their products to me at cwj@corpwatch.org AND to Jayan at thanal@md4.vsnl.net.in We are especially interested in the health impacts in producing PADAN as well as past violations by this company. The group that posted this email have no email address so we will get them the information through other groups in India Thanks Amit Srivastava ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 09:22:24 -0800 Subject: A Plea for Help - Workers Dying from Pesticides Help us we are dying by handling pesticide Posted by Coromandel indag employees Union on 2/23/01 We are a Trade Union in India numbering around 125members. We are poor workers earning around USD 50 per month (Rs 2000/-). We are producing/handling formulations of Cartap Hydrochloride 50 SP/ 4g for and on behalf of Takeda Chemicals Industries Ltd, Japan in India. under their brand name PADAN We have been doing so from 1988 onwards. We found our members working in the PADAN plant are suffering in many ways in health and one of our members died due to handling the chemical. We started complaining but all the parties involved in the manufacturing ran away to another place in the north of India to manufacture the product and they all left us high and dry with all kinds of medical problems and have exploited us. We did not have any money to file a case in a court to seek justice against the evil manufacturers a Good Samaritan Advocate has helped us and filled a case against the manufacturers. Now we do not have the expertise to fight this case to help our members get some compensation. We know that you have got great expertise in this kind of Toxic law. Please help us to fight our case in court by sending us relevant data / information/case law to strengthen our case and guide us as to fight the case in a scientific manner. Pesticides and the lobby is strong in India Therefore kindly help us in any way you can with regard to information .We have attached the notice sent and the petition filled in court for your kind information. Help us please as we do not have the knowledge as to how to go about in the field of Toxic tort law. In case you know of some of your friends/organisations who will help us in knowledge please send us their e-mail id or website. Thanking you Sir Coromandel Indag Products Employees Union Secretary R.P Pushparaj. --- Work Is Worship Coromandel Indag Products Employees Union Secretary : R.P Pushparaj. Registered Under The Trade Union Act (India) Reg No:376/CPT Address:No 598 ,T.H Road,Ennore,Chennai,600 057, Tamilnadu State,India. (We are a Trade Union numbering around 125 Members) ------- End of forwarded message ------- Jayakumar C. Co ordinator Thanal Conservation Action and Information Network, P B # 815 , Kawdiar , Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala , India. Pin 695 003 mail : thanal@vsnl.com Tel :++91-471-311896 Fax :++91-471-435452 ------------------------------------- Corporate Watch in Japanese Transnational Resource and Action Center (TRAC) P.O. Box 29344 San Francisco, CA 94129 USA Tel: 1-415-561-6472 Fax: 1-415-561-6493 Email: cwj@corpwatch.org URL: http://www.corpwatch-jp.org ------------------------------------- ______________________ The Corporate Watch in Japanese http://www.corpwatch.org/japan (CWJ) mailing list is a moderated email list in English designed to connect activists campaigning against Japanese corporations and investments around the world. * To unsubscribe from the CWJ mailing list, send an email to majordomo@jca.apc.org with text "unsubscribe cwj". To subscribe to the CWJ mailing list, send a message to majordomo@jca.apc.org with the text "subscribe cwj" * The CWJ mailing list is NOT intended for wide distribution. If you would like to post messages from this list somewhere else, we ask that you first contact us at cwj@corpwatch.org ______________________