Seeing that General Electric is one of the world's most profitable companies, the electronic workers' union fought against concessions on health coverage and sought to squeeze every last cent it could in wage increases.
Results showed that the prevalence of hearing loss of > 25 dB hearing loss (dBHL) in rayon workers (67.9%) was much higher than that in administrative workers (23.6%) and in the adhesive tape and electronic industrial workers (32.4%).
With an emotional surrender and a final act of electronic defiance, workers at Russia's popular NTV television network ended 11 days of resistance today and ceded control to the state-dominated gas monopoly Gazprom.
The aim of this study was to describe health-seeking behavior, and social and other factors affecting this behavior, among electronic waste workers at Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana.
In a small study investigating 11 electronic dismantling workers, no significant effects were mentioned related to TSH, T3 or T4 [ 43].
Fourth, Yuan et al. (2008) found higher TSH levels in electronic waste workers compared with unexposed persons, but PBDE exposures levels were substantially higher in that study than in our fish consumer cohort.
But some awards are "symbolic", in the view of Atsushi Seike of Keio University such as the rise of ¥500 a month, worth all of $4, recently negotiated by the union for computer and electronic-goods workers.
Contrary to the above studies, Yuan et al. (2008) found higher serum TSH in 23 highly exposed (median ∑PBDEs, 382 ng/g lipids) Chinese electronic-waste workers relative to 26 controls who also had elevated serum ∑PBDE concentrations (median, 158 ng/g lipids).
The order of testing, and by extension the type of device, showed no significant difference in the readings obtained by non-health workers using electronic devices and health workers using mercury devices.
There was no significant difference in systolic blood pressure taken by non-health workers using an electronic device and health workers using a mercury sphygmomanometer; and, again, independent readings by two different non-health workers showed greater agreement, than did two independent readings by health workers.
