WorkSHIFTS
is a program of the Tobacco Law Center, working with the labor community
in Minnesota to provide education, training, and assistance to Minnesota
workers and labor management about the health risks and economic consequences
associated with exposure to tobacco smoke in the workplace.
WorkSHIFTS key activities include:
- Actively involving labor leaders in the development of educational,
training, and resource materials that inform their coworkers about health,
safety, and economic issues related to secondhand smoke in the workplace.
- Providing training for labor leaders so they can share with union
members information about tobacco, its relationship to other workplace
toxins, the benefits of quitting smoking, how these concerns can be
addressed with voluntary workplace smoke-free initiatives, collective
bargaining, and other mechanisms to produce policy changes.
- Providing resources for labor and management to develop workplace
tobacco policies that improve and protect the health of employees.
- Working closely with labor unions, public health organizations,
and others in Minnesota and beyond that share a commitment to worker
health and safety and seek to protect workers and safeguard their rights.
International Labour Organization Statement
on Secondhand Smoke
WorkSHIFTS is a project funded by the ClearWay Minnesota, formerly Minnesota
Partnership for Action Against Tobacco.
