Recognition of occupational cancers: Belgian families' fight for justice
2017
15
32-34
benzene ; cancer ; compensation of occupational diseases ; occupational disease ; occupation disease relation ; trade union role ; trade union document
Occupational diseases
English
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"For more than ten years, the Metalworkers' Federation (a member of the Belgian Trade Union Confederation FGTB) has been supporting the families of four workers suffering from blood cancer. Despite proof that the workers were exposed at work to benzene, a solvent known to cause cancer, the public body responsible for paying compensation to people suffering from occupational diseases is contesting the link to their work."
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