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Corporate killing action call

Issue date

20 Apr 2007

Corporate killing action call

Trades unionists have accused Scotland's political parties of a lack of action on corporate killing. STUC general secretary Grahame Smith said levels of workplace injuries and deaths continued to be unacceptable. The organisation has backed a campaign group that wants employers to be held accountable for deaths in work-related incidents. Families Against Corporate Killers (Fack) staged its Scottish launch at the STUC annual congress in Glasgow. Mr Smith said: 'All of Scotland's political parties must address the issue of corporate killing to ensure the guilty are brought to justice and Scots workers are given the protection from death and injury they deserve.' He added 'not one individual company or director in Scotland has been convicted of corporate homicide, an appalling indictment on our Scottish justice system, that is not much better in England and Wales'. Dorothy Wright, a Fack campaign member, said: 'It is a government's primary duty to protect its citizens' lives - that, we were told, was why we went to war in Iraq and why we need to replace Trident. Why then is government so reluctant and failing so miserably in protecting citizens' lives from rogue companies who kill 1,700 people every single year in work-related incidents, my son being one of the victims? New laws have been announced to enable negligent pet owners to be jailed for ill treating animals, surely humans deserve at least the same respect.' Hilda Palmer from Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, who helped to set up Fack, said the group provided a national voice for bereaved families 'which we are using to lobby ministers, government and MPs and demand the changes to laws and for the stringent enforcement of health and safety that any civilised country would have but which current government is downgrading.'

STUC news releases on Fack and corporate killing. BBC News Online.
Fack website. Hazards deadly business webpages.

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