SOWK 3206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Community Organizing, Rideau River, Ontario Public Service Employees Union

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 3206
• Professor: Joan Kuyek

Document Summary

A student at carleton, you are working for a franchisee of a large lawn care company in ottawa the only job you could find for the summer. Your team of five is charged with maintaining the grass on a locally-owned golf course. In the first week of june one of many very windy days- , you discover that the chemicals on the grass you have been spraying contain a toxic chemical pesticide. None of you have been issued hazardous materials protection and notices have not been posted on the course. Your family and their friends have golfed at this course regularly for a number of years, and know many of the members. Some of these family members have had problems with cancer, and you are concerned that it might be linked to the herbicides and pesticides used at the golf course.