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DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY - 8:30 a.m.\nAPRIL 26, 2008\nALFRED ZAMPA BRIDGE\n(formerly 
 Carquinez Bridge - Hwy 80 - if traveling north, take last exit (#27) to 
 Crockett/Port Costa - go .5 miles turning under fwy, \nthen rt on San Pablo 
 and park near the Dead Fish Restaurant which is located at 20050 San Pablo 
 in Crockett)\n \nWORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY\n \nSPEAKERS\nCongressman George 
 Miller\n\nAssemblywoman Sally Lieber \n(invited, not yet confirmed)\n\nArt 
 Pulaski, Executive Secy-Treasurer\nCalifornia Labor Federation, 
 AFL-CIO\n\nAditi Vaidya, Port Program Director\nEast Bay Alliance for a 
 Sustainable Economy\n\nOn 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. \n\nEach 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. \n\nJoin 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."\n\n \n\nWORKER HEALTH 
 & SAFETY:\n\nA RIGHT - NOT A BENEFIT\n\nSAFETY ON THE JOB IS A HUMAN 
 RIGHT\n\nMOURN FOR THE DEAD\n\nFIGHT FOR THE LIVING\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/24/18494871.php
SUMMARY:Workers Memorial day
LOCATION:ALFRED ZAMPA BRIDGE\n(formerly Carquinez Bridge - Hwy 80 - if traveling 
 north, take last exit (#27) to Crockett/Port Costa - go .5 miles turning 
 under fwy, \nthen rt on San Pablo and park near the Dead Fish Restaurant 
 which is located at 20050 San Pablo in Crockett)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/24/18494871.php
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