Spain: Workers’ Commissions demand compensation fund for asbestos victims

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enced the Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) Company to pay damages to the family of a former employee who died of a pleural cancer, because it didn’t set up prevention measures against the impact of exposure to asbestos. The CCOO union used this ruling to demand the creation of a compensation fund to keep victims from having to go to court. (Ref. 090605)

Felipe Sarriegi
started working at CAF as an apprentice in 1943. Later, he became a mechanic
and then a technician. He died in

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