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Artikel

11 Jun 2002

Autor:
Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, in Asia Times

Taiwan workers mull US lawsuit over toxins

Taiwanese workers who used to make televisions and semiconductors for a US-owned factory have told officials here that employees at the plant suffered illnesses because they were unknowingly exposed to toxic chemicals. More than 200 employees of a former Radio Corp of America (RCA) facility in Taiwan's northern county of Taoyuan died, and about 1,500 still suffer from cancer, said the workers...Richard Knoph, a spokesman for RCA's current owner, Thomson Multimedia of France, denied any correlation between the workers' illnesses and the facility