The Elliot Lake Uranium Miners’ Battle to Gain Occupational Health and Safety Improvements, 1950–1980
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Abstract
Uranium miners in Elliot Lake went on a wildcat strike in 1974 to protest their occupational health concerns on the job after a spike in cancer cases. They learned that the provincial government had known of the poor working conditions causing their illnesses, but had not informed them of the dangers or acted to improve their situation. As a result of union and political pressure, the Ontario government created the Ham Commission to investigate and make recommendations. Its hearings revealed the industry’s scandalous conditions, and its report eventually resulted in the Ontario Health and Safety (ohs ) Act in Ontario. It did not cover the miners until 1984, so they worked through their internal health and safety committees to gain improvements in the work environment. Others have discussed this situation in relation to the emergence of the ohs and environmental movements. This paper discusses the events in terms of the mine owners’ attitudes towards their employees, the industry’s relationship to governments, and the impact of the uranium mining industry (part of the nuclear industry) on the local community and environment. Abstract: Les mineurs d’uranium a Elliot Lake a entame une greve sauvage en 1974 pour manifester leurs preoccupations de la sante au travail apres une augmentation soudaine des cas de cancer. Ils ont appris que le gouvernement provincial avait connu des mauvaises conditions de travail causant leurs maladies, mais ne les avait pas informes des dangers ni avait agi pour ameliorer leur situation.Par suite de la pression syndicale et politique, le gouvernement de l’Ontario a cree la Commission Ham pour enqueter et formuler des recommandations. Ses audiences ont revele des conditions scandaleuses de l’industrie, et son rapport a finalement abouti a l’adoption de la Loi de l’Ontario sur la sante et la securite au travail (sst ) en Ontario. Cette loi ne couvrait pas les mineurs jusqu’en 1984, alors que ces derniers travaillaient au sein de sur leurs comites de sante et de securite internes pour obtenir des ameliorations dans l’environnement de travail. D’autres ont discute de cette situation par rapport a l’emergence de la sst et aux mouvements environnementaux. Cet article discute des evenements en terme d’attitudes des proprietaires de mines envers leurs employes, les relations de l’industrie aupres des gouvernements, et l’impact de l’industrie miniere de l’uranium (qui fait partie de l’industrie nucleaire) sur la communaute locale et l’environnement.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".