Britain’s top computer chip companies refused to spend less than the price of a couple of pints per employee to research the cancer risks in their industry. The UK’s multi-billion pound electronics industry, the world’s fifth largest with 25,000 employees, defied the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and government who asked the industry to contribute to the £600,000 report over four years. The union Unite pledged £60,000. It calculates it would cost the industry just £6 a year for each employee to fund the potentially life-saving research.
