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Tammy
Miser Executive Director
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USMWF provided a
virtual kitchen table for other family members in the same situation.
It seemed unimaginable to her that with 6,000 or so workers in the
U.S.
dying on-the-job every year, there was
no organizations to provide support and guidance to the family members
left behind? There are
advocacy groups for many different issues, yet not one for individuals
personally devastated because their loved one was simply going to work to
pursue the American dream, but they would never come home again because
they died on the job? Not only
will they never see their loved one again but often times, they are left
financially strapped, and/or faced with grieving children who are fearful
for anyone they love going to work. Tammy’s
personal experience losing a loved one and her performance to-date with
USMWF demonstrate her qualifications.
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November 2007, USMWF was recognized by the Occupational Health and Safety
Section of the American Public Health Assocation with the Tony
Mazzocchi Award. This
distinction recognizes grassroots activists fighting for the health and
safety rights of workers. It
is named after Mr. Tony Mazzocchi, an influential labor leader who played
a key role in legislative struggles including the passage of the Federal
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and dedicated his life to
securing workers’ health and safety rights.
Most recently, USMWF’s founder, Tammy Miser, testified on March 12, 2008
at a hearing of the House of Representatives’ Education and Labor
Committee on “The Combustible Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention
Act of 2008” (H.R. 5522); the bill passed the House of
Representatives on April 30, 2008 by a 247-165 vote.
Ms. Miser has also been interviewed and quoted in local and
national newspapers and magazines, including an April 30, 2008
article in The Nation
and
the March 24,
2008
issue of Chemical
& Engineering News Finally, the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes aired a segment
entitled “Is Enough Done to Stop Explosive Dust” (June 7, 2008)
which featured Ms. Miser. The
program focused on the February 2008 explosion at the Imperial Sugar
Refinery, which fatally burned 13 workers, and highlighted the
deficiencies in our federal and state workplace hazard prevention
programs. Tammy Miser
shared her experience as a family-member victim who, like thousands
of others across the
U.S.
, suffer profoundly because of our nation’s inadequate regulatory
system to protect workers’ fundamental right to places of
employment that do not cause death, injury or disease.
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