[C-U Smokefree] UK Pub Workers Demand Smoke Free Workplace

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Dr. Tsoukalas

Britain's Pub Union Calls for Smokefree Workplace Law
 
Parts excerpted from UK Times and Personnel Today, 6/7/04
 
Bar, pub, club and catering staff of the Transport and General Workers' Union 
voted in favor of an outright ban on smoking in their workplaces.  Britain's 
third largest union made their demand for smokefree bars, clubs and 
restaurants, days after Prime Minister Tony Blair supported making all public places 
smokefree. The vote comes amid mounting concerns of the failure of existing 
legislation to protect workers from diseases caused by exposure to tobacco smoke 
pollution.

Brian Revell, the union's national organiser for food and agriculture, said 
it was unacceptable that union members working in the hospitality industry 
continued to be confronted by smoky environments, which could damage their health.

"The feedback from our members working in bars, pubs, clubs and restaurants 
is that smoking in their workplaces is as prevalent as ever and a ban is 
necessary now," he said. "The Government is right to consider smokefree workplace 
legislation and the union expects it to take a firm position in the interests of 
public health."

This year, Ireland and Norway became the first European nations to make all 
workplaces, including pubs and restaurants, smokefree.



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