Nestle and 'Zero Accidents': Can be Hazardous to Your Health!
Unions around the world will be mobilizing again on April 28, each in its way highlighting the 360,000 annual workplace fatalities and 2 million deaths from occupational diseases. On April 28, as on every other day, some 960,000 workers will be injured in an accident at work, and some 5,300 workers will die of work-related diseases.
Nestlé states that "safety is non-negotiable". As with so many other things, Nestlé has again got it wrong. Safety must be continuously negotiated, because new hazards arise with each change in the production process, and change is continuous. And negotiation requires strong unions, in each and every workplace.