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DESCRIPTION:10/6 Press Conference Stop Attacks On Injured Workers And Defend Health And 
 Safety In California\n"The Deck Is Stacked Against Injured Workers In 
 California"\nOSHA Is Under Threat For Workers With Only 200 Inspectors In 
 California for 18.5 Million Workers\n\nThursday October 6, 2016 9:00 
 AM\nCalifornia State Building Oakland\n1515 Clay St. Oakland\n\nThe 
 California Commission On Health and Safety and Workers Compensation is 
 supposed to investigate the situation of health and safety in California 
 and workers compensation. This commission however has become a tool of the 
 insurance industry and employers and companies in California.\nThe leaders 
 of this commission and Christine Baker who is Governor Brown's head of the 
 Department of Industrial Relations DIR  have pushed for the deregulation of 
 workers compensation and have refused to demand that there be full staffing 
 of California OSHA which only has around 200 inspectors for 18.5 million 
 workers. California is behind Oregon, the State of Washington and other 
 states in the number of health and safety inspectors and this has created 
 even more dangerous conditions for California workers.\nThere have been 
 numerous oil refinery explosions and workers have been illegally fired for 
 speaking up for health and safety.\nThere is an epidemic of workplace 
 bullying and harassment on the job and Governor Brown, Christine Baker of 
 DIR and the CHSWC refuse to even study it while some workers commit 
 suicide. Instead they cut and limit benefits for workers who have mental 
 health problems from bullying and other stress in the workplace under SB 
 863.\nAt the same time,  the Christine Baker DIR agency  has had privately 
 funded meetings in the state building excluding the public and the press 
 from reports about the programs that she runs. Baker and Brown outsourced 
 the review of the cases of injured workers in a $40 million dollar no bid 
 contract to Maximus Corporation. This company has anonymous doctors from 
 outside California making determinations about what treatment workers 
 should get and have denied needed medical treatment to tens of thousands of 
 workers destroying their health and their lives and even leading to 
 suicides according to NBC Bay Area 
 Investigates.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVpPVRIHNWA\nhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Injured-Workers-Face-Stacked-Deck-During-Workers-Comp-Appeals-Process-Critics-Say--391202731.html\nhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Workers-Comp-Drags-Out-Medical-Care-Injured-Workers-and-their-Doctors-Say-390979441.html\nInstead 
 of helping injured workers these insurance company shill give them more 
 drugs that get them addicted and then attack doctors for creating 
 addictions.\nAt the same time they have bullied OSHA staff and 
 whistleblower who are exposing their anti-worker anti-labor tactics. Even 
 the Federal government has "rebuke" Governor Brown and DIR Director 
 Christine Baker for not have proper staffing and protection for California 
 workers.\nIt is time speak out about the attack on health and safety and 
 also for injured workers who are being attacked and destroyed in California 
 by these government officials who represent the corporations and insurance 
 industry.\n\nThe commission meeting starts at 10:00 AM in the State 
 Building Auditorium\n\nSponsored by\nInjured Workers National 
 Network\nhttps://m.facebook.com/Injured-Workers-National-Network-IWNN-108362552680848/\nUnited 
 Public Workers For Action\nwww.upwa.info\nCalifornia Coalition For Workers 
 Memorial Day\nwww.workersmemorialday.org\nFor information call 
 (415)282-1908\n\nAdditional Information\n'Grand Bargain' In Workers' Comp 
 Unravels, Harming Injured Workers 
 Further\nhttp://www.npr.org/2015/03/05/390930229/grand-bargain-in-workers-comp-unravels-harming-injured-workers-further\nInjured 
 Workers Suffer As 'Reforms' Limit Workers' Compensation 
 Benefits\nhttp://www.npr.org/2015/03/04/390441655/injured-workers-suffer-as-reforms-limit-workers-compensation-benefits\nhttp://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article72456872.html\nhttp://www.propublica.org/article/california-workers-comp-law-gets-criticism-praise-at-senate-hearing\nThe 
 War on Workers’ 
 Comp\nhttp://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19206/the_war_on_workers_comp\nhttp://www.workerscompzone.com/2015/07/08/brown-administration-rebuked-by-feds-re-osha/\nhttp://nlf.sagepub.com/content/24/1/100.full.pdf\nhttp://ehstoday.com/osha/watchdog-group-calosha-s-staff-level-has-fallen-below-minimum-standard-federal-funding\nhttp://www.workerscompzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cal-OSHA.GarrettBrownSummary.pdf\n\n\nCHSWC 
 Agenda\nhttp://www.dir.ca.gov/chswc/meetings/2016/Agenda_10-06-16.pdf\nThursday, 
 October 6, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.\nElihu Harris State Building, 
 Auditorium\n1515 Clay Street, Oakland, CA\nDEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL 
 RELATIONS\n\nCOMMISSION ON HEALTH AND SAFETY AND WORKERS’ 
 COMPENSATION\n1515 Clay Street, 17th Floor\nOakland, CA 94612\n\nTelephone: 
 (510) 622-3959 Fax: (510) 286-0499\nEmail: CHSWC@dir.ca.gov Website: 
 www.dir.ca.gov/chswc\n\nNOTICE OF MEETING\n\nDate: Thursday, October 6, 
 2016 Time: 10:00 am\nPlace: Elihu Harris State Building\n\n1515 Clay 
 Street, Auditorium Oakland, CA\n\n	•  Approval of Minutes from the 
 August 4, 2016 CHSWC Meeting Angie Wei, Chair\n\n	• Update on Developing 
 a Drug Formulary\nDr. Ray Meister, Executive Medical Director, 
 DWC\n\nJackie Schauer, Legal Counsel, DWC\n\n	• Report on Quality of Care 
 Indicators for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome\nTeryl Nuckols, Director, Division of 
 General Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai\n\n	• Summary Report on the 
 Aging Workforce Roundtable Robin Dewey, UC Berkeley-LOHP\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/02/18791843.php
SUMMARY:Stop Attacks On Injured Workers & Defend Health And Safety In California "Deck Is Stacked"
LOCATION:California State Building Oakland\n1515 Clay St. Oakland\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/02/18791843.php
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