The USW/BGA Program

In partnership with the BlueGreen Alliance, the United Steelworkers geared up to Put Breast Cancer Out of Work to:

• Talk about the role of chemicals in breast cancer and other chronic diseases;
• Build coalitions with other unions, environmentalists, and women’s health groups to raise public awareness of the role of chemicals in breast cancer;
• Work for new policies that regulate chemicals using examples of what cities, states, and leading companies are doing; and
• Equip workers and their employers to join the do-it-yourself safer chemicals effort to prevent harmful exposures that lead to disease.

The Steelworkers have issued a hazard alert and together with the BlueGreen Alliance created a new Rosie the Riveter themed logo. The Women’s Council of UAW’s Region 2B has also hosted trainings.

Putting Breast Cancer Out of Work is a new BlueGreen Alliance project to prevent breast cancer and other chronic diseases by promoting safer alternatives to the current use of dangerous chemicals.

Since 2012, the BlueGreen Alliance has developed and refined an interactive curriculum that explains the role of chemicals in breast cancer and other chronic diseases, the need for new policies that regulate chemical use, examples of what cities, states, and leading companies are doing while we work for new federal protections and how workers and their employers can join the do-it-yourself safer chemicals effort.

The website of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners includes information about workplace exposures to chemicals linked to breast cancer.   

Silent Spring Institute has published a database of mammary carcinogens.