4/27 Workers Memorial Day Rally and Speak-out In Davis, California-Focus On Biotech Industry

2008 Workers Memorial Day Event
Sunday April 27, 2008 12:00 noon
Central Park
4th St. and “C” Street
Davis, California
http://www.city.davis.ca.us/topic/directions.cfm?f=central

Injured workers, their families, community activists and environmentalists will join together on Sunday April 27, 2008 at 12:00 noon at Central Park in Davis, California to commemorate those workers who have died on the jobs and workers who have been injured on the job.
As a result of SB 899 bill that deregulated workers compensation, thousands of seriously injured workers are not getting their healthcare taken care of. While insurance companies are pocketing tens of billions of dollars, injured workers are forced to go on SSI or to public hospitals. This massive cost shifting fraud is part of the deregulation scam.

This year’s event will also focus particularly on the breakdown of Ca/OSHA and the destruction of regulatory agencies such as the EPA. All doctors have been eliminated at Ca/OSHA which is supposed to protect the 13 million working people of California. The biotechnology industry which is based in California is being allowed to genetically engineer pesticides without proper health and safety protection for the worker and the consumer.
Injured Agraquest biotech worker David Bell was infected by bacteria and fungus at the Agraquest genetic engineering pesticide laboratory in a residential neighborhood of Davis but owner Pam Marrone and the company denied that his injuries came from his job. This was despite the fact that their patented products were found in David’s body.
Injured workers like David Bell have a right to healthcare and proper health and safety on the job.

Speakers will include:
Dina Padilla, B.E.S.T. CA President, Past Member SEIU 250 and Delegate To Sacramento Central Labor Council
Mary Vivenzi, Partner of UBC Carpenter Kevin Noah killed on Golden Gate Bridge http://www.usmfw.org -United Support & Memorial For Workplace Fatalities
Mike Horowitz, Government Industrial Hygienist
Dan Berman, Author of "Death On the Job"
Nick Jones, Advocate California Health Security Plan
http://www.californiansforhealthsecurity.org/
Doug Haney, Bio Health Research Psychologist, Author of Toxic Mold, Toxic Enemy
Sandi Trend, Mother of Injured Davis Agraquest Worker David Bell
David Mitchell, Injured worker, member of Unite-HERE Local 2 & Local 2850
Glen Holthumb, Injured cement finisher
Carl Bryant, Member of NALC 214 and Producer of TV214, Past Health And Safety Chair NALC 214

Singers Richard Taliafarro, former member of IUOE3 and Kathy Harvey, a retired member of SEIU 1000 will also perform.

Initiated by
California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
Endorsed By San Francisco Labor Council, SEIU 1021, B.E.S.T., USMFW.
http://www.workersmemorialday.org
P.O. Box 720027
San Francisco, CA 94172

For contact information call
CCWMD (415)867-0628 or
Dan Berman (530)383-5510