We fought global giant and won
WE ARE pleased that our case against Babcock International has been successful. Most importantly, this gives our late mother the justice she wanted in life and that we sought on her behalf after her painful and unnecessary premature death.
Our loving mother was hard-working and lived to support her family and friends like so many women in Scotland in the late 1960s and early 70s.
She supported her family by caring for her children and washing her husband’s overalls when he returned from a hard day’s work for employers who used deadly asbestos.
These women, like our mother, were unaware how unsafe it was to be handling the asbestos dust which came from these work clothes or the contamination risk to their own and their families’ lungs.
Our mother and her family were supported by the palliative care of staff at Paisley’s Accord Hospice, where she died on May 30, 2015.
We, her children, wait to see if we will suffer the same fate.
Babcock International have not won their case, but, is it right that ordinary bereaved families still have to individually battle the might of global corporations for justice for their late relative in such situations? Might is not always right. Our mother wanted justice for herself and her family and those family members she wouldn’t get to know or love due to her premature death.
We, her family, have highlighted the injustice of her situation by successfully bringing this case to court.
We further ask that the Scottish Government support all women and children who have suffered a similar industrial injury due to unsafe work practices and to support them regardless of whether they were employed or not by their husbands’ or fathers’ employers who used deadly asbestos.