Blood On Their Hands, Aramark-Insurance Industry Murder Unite-Here Ballpark Worker Bettye

Bettye Jean Jones Mitchell (1949-2008)
Blood On Their Hands, Aramark-Insurance Industry Murder Unite-Here Ballpark Worker Bettye Jean Jones Mitchell

On June 20, 2008 after struggling for her life, Unite-Here ballpark worker Bettye Jean Jones Mitchell passed away. Bettye who spoke at this year's Worker's Memorial Day had been fighting for years to get her medical coverage. She reported at the Worker's Memorial Day April 27, 2008 meeting in Davis, California that only recently she had been sent a survey on how she was been treated with her workplace injuries. This was after years of silence and stalling by by ARAMARK Sports & Entertainment and Specialty Risk Services which is the Worker's Compensation Insurance carrier.
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She and her husband David Mitchell who is also a Unite-Here worker employed by Aramark have been in a desperate battle to force Aramark and it's insurance carriers to provide medical care. Instead the company has denied her care and is complicit and guilty in her death and the torture she had gone through.
Unfortunately, the national labor management partnership with Aramark has also led to a situation where the union locals involved were not going to bat against Aramark and the insurance industry. Unite-Here 2850 denied an appeal to fight Aramark's refusal to care for Bettye and not only Bettye but many other workers in this industry have been injured and have been forced to struggle on their own for justice and healthcare.

To honor Bettye and her life, injured workers with the California Coalition For Workers Memorial will be joining a march by the Alameda Labor Council on Monday June 30, 2008 at 9:30 PM in Oakland California. The march will begin at the Oakland Unitarian Church 685 14th St. with a march to Oakland City Hall 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza for rally at 11:00 PM.
Please join this contingent in memory of Bettye and all injured and killed workers.
California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
P.O. Box 720027
San Francisco, CA 94172



BETTYE JEAN JONES MITCHELL

(August 14, 1949 - June 20, 2008)

Beloved wife, loving sister and friend

Married December 19, 2005
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

WAKE
4:00 p.m. thru 8:00 p.m.
Duggans Serra Mortuary
500 Westlake Avenue
Daly City, CA 94014-1927
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Friday, June 27, 2008

SERVICES
10:00 a.m.
Neighborhood Baptist Church
608 Hayes Street
San Francisco, CA
(Note: "Funeral" Permit parking available
at 491 Hayes Street, and surrounding streets;
vehicles without proper creditials will be towed.)

INTERMENT
Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma, CA.

REPAST
Neighborhood Baptist Church

CELEBRATION
2:00 p.m. thru 6:00 p.m.
Velma's
2258 Jerrold Avenue
San Francisco, CA
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REMEMBRANCES:
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FINALLY
Bettye experienced carpal-tunnel syndrome symptons
while
working Opening Day 2001 at the Oakland (CA)
Coliseum;

she filed a California Workers Compensation injury
claim on May 6, 2001;
employer ARAMARK's first out-going telephone contact
about this issue came to the house yesterday, June
23,
2008, at 11:29 a.m..

Don't let her torture go unnoticed; Call-In Sick For
Bettye on Friday, June 27, 2008



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My Valentine's California Workers Compensation System Network Nightmare

David A. Mitchell
Feb 14, 2008 4:32 AM

Will you please find a just cause and come help my Bettye smile again?

Nearly seven years - April 6, 2001 - after my wife, Bettye, first experienced on-the-job carpal tunnel syndrome, her employers' workers compensation insurance carrier continues to deny treatment to allow her to return to work at the Oakland (CA) Coliseum where she is employed by ARAMARK Sports & Entertainment; Specialty Risk Services is its WCIC. Regardless of having present legal representation, the dignity, respect and trust that she needs, is no longer there as her attorney acts astounded that she would want to return to work again. Twice, the attorney's first question upon approaching at California Workers Compensation System hearings has been, "They (SRS) want to know when you're going to resign."

She hasn't worked since September 26, 2007. She's had two surgeries since - right wrist carpal tunnel relief and emergency right knee shag removal - and as you read this, her right shoulder is in so much pain than she has ever experienced. She rated it nine and the caretaker's returning response was hardly a nod. She's become all scrunched-up and twisted, and I have to have her drape herself over my shoulder so I can lift her up every times she needs to get up and move around. Basically, she is paralyzed with pain from the waist up and the employers' workers compensation insurance carriers continue to mess with her; she received another bill just the other day, a bill she should never EVER have received.

On Monday, April 4, 2008, when she entered St. Mary's Hospital for an iron infusion, she ended up receiving emergency transfusion (two units blood), and while she was resting, I glimpsed an image as if this was her deathbed, and I have been an emotional wreck since. Today, on Valentines Day, the team of doctors and caretakers are on top of the situation; BLESS THEIR HEARTS! She is into day four of entirely new medication regime; she feels it working in all the joints above the waist, especially in the surgical areas which have swelled and puffed and are tender to the touch; I've been a lummox around the house handling her homecare and I know I am putting her body into further shock. Did I mention the strain she's going through the California Workers Compensation System torture network nightmare? Will you please find a just cause and come help my Betty smile again?

David A. Mitchell, member Unite-HERE Local 2 & Local 2850