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SPONSORS
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
State Building & Const Trades Council of CA
Contra Costa Central Labor Council
Contra Costa Building Trades Council
Plumbers Steamfitters & Refrigeration Fitters UA Local 393
WORKSAFE!
ENDORSERS
(partial listing)
State Senator Tom Torlakson
Assembly Member Mark Desaulnier
Alameda Labor Council
Alameda County Building Trades Council
Monterey / Santa Cruz Building & Const Trades
North Bay Labor Council
Sacramento Sierra Building & Const Trades
San Francisco Labor Council
San Mateo Central Labor Council
Building & Const Trades Council San Mateo
Santa Clara-San Benito Building Trades Council
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Centro Legal de la Raza
Coalition for Clean Air
EBASE East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
Environment California
Iron Workers Local 377
Just Transition Alliance
La Raza Centro Legal
SEIU United Healthcare Workers West
SoCalCOSH
Tradeswomen Inc.
United Steelworkers Local 5
United Support & Memorial for Workplace Fatalities
UNITE - HERE
West County Toxics Coalition
SATURDAY - 8:30 am
APRIL 26, 2008
ALFRED ZAMPA BRIDGE
(formerly Carquinez Bridge - park near Dead Fish Restaurant at 20050 San Pablo, Crockett - if traveling north on I-80, take last exit (#27) before bridge to Crockett/ Port Costa - go .5 miles turning under fwy, then rt on San Pablo)
WORKERS'
MEMORIAL
DAY
WORKER HEALTH & SAFETY:
A RIGHT - NOT A BENEFIT
SPEAKERS
Congressman George Miller
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (invited, not yet confirmed)
Art Pulaski, Executive Secy-Treasurer
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
Aditi Vaidya, Port Program Director
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
MOURN FOR THE DEAD
FIGHT FOR THE LIVING
For more information, call (510) 302-1071 or (510) 333-9907 or email worksafe@worksafe.org. Visit our website at www.worksafe.org
On Workers' Memorial Day we remember the casualties of America's longest undeclared war: tens of thousands dead and millions wounded - every year. The war isn't just overseas; it's here at home and the battleground is the workplace. Nationwide in 2006, more than 1.2 million workers were injured and 5,703 workers killed. Another 50,000 died due to occupational diseases from sources such as toxic chemicals.
Each year in California, 23,000 workers are diagnosed with a chronic, deadly disease caused by workplace chemical exposure, and approximately 6,500 California workers die due to associated chronic diseases. Workers in California are not adequately protected. AB 515 by Assembly Member Sally Lieber will require the OSH Standards Board to make it a priority to issue standards for chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, reproductive or developmental harm, and require those standards be based on health-based data, to the extent feasible. California has data now to set those standards, avoiding duplication of resources and speeding the process -- we should use it. California workers deserve to be protected at work from harmful exposures to the same hazardous substances for which the community is protected in the environment.
Join together to observe WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY at the Zampa Memorial Bridge -- help fight for safer working conditions. The bridge represents the dedication of all the men and women who build these monumental projects and reminds us too of those who lose their lives in the process. This is the only bridge in the U.S. named in honor of a blue collar worker. Alfred Zampa was a member of Iron Workers Local 378, and as he said, "Anytime someone got killed on the job, we'd go jittery and go home for the day. We'd wonder, is it our turn next? If we got hurt, we couldn't get no insurance, no welfare or nothing, until the union came up. I don't know where I'd be without the union."
SAFETY on THE JOB
IS A HUMAN RIGHT
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