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CA
SoCalCOSH
Date: April
25, 2009
Time: 11:00am
-3:00pm
Place:
UCLA
Downtown Labor Center 675 S. Park View St. Los Angeles, 90057
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Details:
Includes
worker health and safety leaders, a
community forum, and a funeral procession through central
Los Angeles.
Contact
info: To
find out how to be involved please 310-794-5971 or
socalcosh@gmail.com
Sponsored
by: Southern California Coalition for Occupational Safety &
Health (SoCalCOSH), the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety & Health
program (UCLA-LOSH), the UCLA Labor Center and Worksafe
CA 2009 Workers Memorial Day Events In SF & Downey
Date:
April 19,
Time:
3:00 PM
Press
Conference
4:30
PM for event
Location:
Independence Park - 12334 Bellflower Blvd, City of Downey, CA 90242
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info: Downey Kaiser Hospital complex has been built on one of the most
toxic sites in the Los Angeles area and hundreds of workers have been
sickened as a result of the failure of the developer
Stuart
Lichter to properly clean up the site and also the failure of Federal
and state regulatory agencies to properly regulate health and
safety protection along with enforcing fraud violations because
of workers comp cost shifting by the developer and companies. Injured
movie industry from Dreamworks and the Downey Studios and Kaiser
hospital workers, ILWU longshore workers along with other injured
workers and their families will speak out about health and
safety.
Speakers:
Leonard
Martin - injured IATSE Local 44 member
Gail
Shephard - injured SEIU Kaiser worker (http://downey..kaiserpapers.info/cdcniosh/gail.html)
Barb
Clark - injured nurse practitioner (http://www.barbclark.org)
John
Mallen, ILWU Local 29 member and others.
Contact
Info: CCWMD, P.O. Box 720027, San Francisco CA 94172
www.workersmemorialday.org
lvpsf(at)labornet.org
(415)
867-0628, (562) 863-3097
CCWMD
Date:
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Time:
3:00 PM - Press Conference
7:00
PM Speak-Out
At
ILWU Local 34 - 2nd St/Embarcadero on the left side of AT&T
Park
Free
Parking at ILUW Local 34
Place:
At front of Pfizer Research Facility
Location:
455 Mission Bay Boulevard South at 3rd St., SF, next to
the
New UCSF Biotech China Basin building
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Deatils: speakers including: Shiela Davis, Executive
Director Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition,
Daniel
Berman, author of Death on The Job, Becky McClain, injured Pfizer
molecular bi-
ologist,
Dina Padilla injured Kaiser worker, Mary Vivenzi-USMWF Carl Bryant,
NALC Local 214, Mike Daley, Iron
Workers
Local 377 on 9/11 NYC First Responders,Ray Tomkins-Environmental
Expert, also representatives from the ILWU and other unions,
injured workers and their families.
Contact
info: California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day (CCWMD)
P.O.
Box 720027, San Francisco, CA 94172 (415) 867-0628
www.workersmemorialday.org
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CT
Date:
April
28th, 2008
Time:
11:00 am
Place:
Market Square Philadelphia
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Details: This ceremony will also commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Pressed Steel Car Strike, one of the bloodiest
battles in American labor history with over 500 men injured and 13 killed.
Date:
April 23rd Time:
10:00. Place:L'Ambiance
Plaza, (the anniversary of the collapse at the L'Ambiance
Plaza) they will hold a ceremony at the site in Bridgeport.
AFSCME Date:
April 28th, there is a candle light vigal at the Place:
Worker's Memorial site in Groton Ct that was donated by the city about 10 years ago. That one is at
Time:
6:00 a.m. I will be a speaker at that event. (Training on Workers Rights about Health & Safety after the event at around 7:30 or 8:00. I may do a second session at 4:00 p.m. as well. We are still working out the details on the training part.)
At 10:00 there is a ceremony at the AFSCME Council 4 Union hall in New Britain CT. I attend, but do not speak at that one. It could be tight making that one if the training session at the first one runs as planned.
AFL-CIO
Date:
April 23rd Time:
12:00 noon Place:
Capital Building in Hartford CT
CT State AFL-CIO holds one at the
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Details: Deb Belancik speaks, It is usually on the back steps of the Capital, might be in a different location at the Capital because the state has donated space for a permanent Memorial somewhere at the Capital. I think it is close to the area where we normally hold it at the rear of the Building.
MA
Date:
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Time:
12
pm
Place: State House, Beacon Hill, Boston
Rain location: Grand staircase, 1st floor, State House
More
Details: Flyer
2009 Workers’ Memorial Day Report will be released that day.
Contact
info: Katie Mae Simpson at (617)825-7233 x14 or katiemae.simpson@masscosh.org for more Workers’ Memorial Day information or other resources about health and safety in the workplace.
NY
Triangle
Fire Commemoration
Date:
Friday, March 27, 2009
Time:12
pm
Place:
New
York City: Corner of Washington Place & Greene Street
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Details: To
honor the women who died at the Triangle Fire and our continued
fight for workers rights and workplace safety.
Contact
info: Ed
Vargas at 212-265-7000
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PA, NJ & DE
PHILAPOSH
Date:
April 24th, 2008
Time:
8:00
am: Registation
9:00
am: Breakfast Served
10:45 am; Procession to the
Penn’s Landing
Prayer Offering, Memorial remarks from family members.
Place:
Sheet Metal Workers Hall
301 S. Columbus Blvd.
Philadelphia
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Details:
Welcome and Invocation
Speakers to be announced
Please note if you are a family
member or freind you will not have a door fee but if possable please
do call ahead so they may make sure there are the correct
acomadations. For full details visit this
link
Contact
info:
(215)
386-7000 or email
PA
Alleghent
County
Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Date:
April
28th, 2008
Time:
11:00 am
Place:
Market Square Philadelphia
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Details: This ceremony will also commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Pressed Steel Car Strike, one of the bloodiest battles in American labor history with over 500 men injured and 13 killed.
Contact
info: cell 814-758-0373, home 814-432-5450, work 814-437-7891
email dspadaro@pa.rr.com
SC Date:
Tuesday, April 28 Time:
7:00 pm Place:
Palmetto
Land Baptist Church Location:Family
Life Center, 114 Tomaka Drive, Summerville, SC, 29483. More
Details:The
SC Workers Memorial Candlelight Service is in the The
Guest Speaker is Representative Tim Scott, and Pastor Daniel
Carpenter will give the invocation. Michelle Bentley will speak
about her brother Eddie Bentley who died in Ladson, SC while working
inside a manhole.
Light refreshments will be served after the service, so we can
mingle and get to know each other. Please join us as we honor and
remember the fallen workers.
Contact
Info:
(843) 851-0566. The Carolina Workers Memorial web site is www.carolinaworkersmemorial.highpowersites.com
WA
Worker
Memorial ceremony
Date:
April 28th,
Time:
2:00 p.m.
Place:
Tumwater L&I Headquarters Bldg.
Location:
7273 Linderson Way SW
Tumwater,
WA 98501
Contact: Kristi
Richardson (360) 902-4212
WI
WNYCOSH
Date: Tuesday,
May 12
Time:
6PM
Place:
2495
Main Street, Suite 438Buffalo
Contact
info: Roger Cook
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