The committee has been incredibly successful with engaging union members around workplace health and safety issues, including occupational disease.

Really, a lot of the lobbying comes from getting our membership active as well.

Um, w- we had a lot of great success a few years ago with diesel, uh, particulate.

Now, that, it's a completely different campaign, but the outcomes are the same: COPD, lung cancer, and shortened life expectancy.

We found that when we engaged our membership, we mailed to them directly, we asked them to fill exposure forms and tell the compensation system that they were being exposed to this.

And not only did we reach out to our workers, we reached out to their families and had, you know, town halls here a- at our local to make sure we were sharing all the information that we knew and that we had the right people at those meetings, like doctors who are in healthcare seeing this, victims, cancer survivors, widows, e- everyone talking the same thing so that when we go to the Ministry of Labor and talk to the minister about it, it isn't just, you know, three, uh, union activists.

It's a whole membership behind us.

It's greed.