BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18588832 SEQUENCE:18636062 CREATED:20090414T220800Z DESCRIPTION:Workers Memorial Day is held every April 28, 2009 to commemorate the workers who have been injured or killed on the job. Tens of thousands of workers in California have been seriously injured and have been refused healthcare by company doctors in a deregulated workers comp system. Ca-Osha has also eliminated all doctors at the agency for California's 17 million workers. This year's Workers Memorial day will also focus on the many toxic sites in the US that were supposed to be cleaned up by private developers but were not. Workers and community people have been sickened. We will also look at the health and safety dangers of new technologies including biotechnology and nanotechnology which have been introduced into the environment without proper oversight and health and safety protection.\n\n\nSF April 28, 2009 Workers Memorial Day \nSpeak-Out To Protect \nHealth And Safety On The Job \nWorkers Memorial Day was established to commemorate and defend workers injured and killed on \nthe job. This year, the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day (CCWMD) will also focus \non the need for health and safety protection, regulation and standards for new industries such as \nbiotechnology and nanotechnology. These industries are not properly regulated with strong health \nand safety standards. The CCWMD is calling for national Congressional hearings on these issues \nand also for the defense of injured workers who face a deregulated workers comp system in which \nseriously injured workers are not able to get proper healthcare and compensation. We need to get \nthe insurance industry out of healthcare, so all workers can get healthcare. \nThe elimination of all doctors at Ca-Osha is another dangerous threat that threadens the health and \nsafety of 17 million workers of California particularly those facing the use of new technology in \nthe workplace. Many dangerous toxic sites in Northern California and around the country have \nbeen privatized and labeled “Brownfield” sites. Workers, veterans and community people have \nalso been sickened by the failure to clean these sites. \nTuesday, April 28, 2009 \n3:00 PM - Press Conference \nAt front of Pfizer Research Facility - 455 Mission Bay Boulevard South at 3rd St., SF, next to \nthe New UCSF Biotech China Basin building. \nSpeakers to include injured Kaiser worker Dina Padilla, Pfizer injured molecular biologist Becky McClain, Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, Author Daniel Berman\n\n7:00 PM Speak-Out \nAt ILWU Local 34 - 2nd St/Embarcadero on the left side of AT&T Park \nFree Parking at ILUW Local 34 \nspeakers including: Shiela Davis, Executive Director Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition, Dan- \niel Berman, author of Death on The Job, Becky McClain, injured Pfizer micro biologist, Dina \nPadilla injured Kaiser worker, Carl Bryant, NALC Local 214, Mike Daley, Iron Workers Local \n377 on 9/11 NYC First Responders, also representatives from the ILWU and other unions, \ninjured workers and their families. \nEndorsed by San Francisco Coalition Of Labor Union Women, San Francisco Labor Council and other unions.\n\nCalifornia Coalition For Workers Memorial Day (CCWMD) \nP.O. Box 720027, San Francisco, CA 94172 \nwww.workersmemorialday.org \n(415) 867-0628 \n\nCommemorate Workers Injured and Killed On The Job\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/14/18588832.php SUMMARY:Commemorate Workers Memorial Day April 28, 2009 In San Francisco LOCATION:At front of Pfizer Research Facility - 455 Mission Bay Boulevard South at 3rd St., SF, next to \nthe New UCSF Biotech China Basin building. URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/14/18588832.php DTSTART:20090428T220000Z DTEND:20090428T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR