Mercury Pollution-hit Kodai Unilever Ex-workers Protest at Firm's Mumbai HQ
Source: New Indian Express, Date: , 2015
Ex-workers affected due to mercury pollution by the Hindustan
Unilever’s now-defunct thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, on Monday staged
a protest at the company’s headquarters in Andheri, Mumbai, when the Annual
General Meeting with shareholders was held. Supported by 30 volunteers from
Mumbai, 11 families from Kodaikanal took part in the protest, holding placards
and photographs of deceased workers and children. They appealed to the
shareholders to make the company address its liabilities. The workers also gave
pamphlets to shareholders detailing Unilever’s actions that polluted a
scrapyard in Kodaikanal where the company dumped toxic mercury wastes. The
resultant death toll stands at 45 workers of the now-defunct Unilever factory
besides 12 of their children.