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cseany.org March 2018 Vol. 21, No. 3
I AM: Worker safety helps unions stay strong
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come home — safely.
One way we will keep up our
work is through our Statewide Conference on Occupational Safety and Health, which will be held April 27-29 in Lake Placid. Jordan Barab, former deputy assistant secretary of Labor at OSHA under the Obama administration and previously the longtime director of AFSCME’s safety and health program, will be the keynote speaker.
Through workshops, plenary sessions and most importantly, having conversations with each other, we can make our workplaces safer and our union stronger. Visit our website at cseany.org to learn more and register.
One of the best ways to keep our union strong is to never quit on your safety.
Risk of
more
Workplace Death: %
49
likely in Right- to-Work states.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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freedom to have a fair return on their work, with the dignity that we all deserve.
The Memphis sanitation workers’ struggle showed us to achieve true social justice, we also need labor justice. That is why organized labor and civil rights advocates continue to stand together. On Feb. 1, we participated in a national moment of silence to remember Cole and Walker, and to continue to ensure that all workers can do their jobs in safe working conditions and be treated with dignity.
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On Feb. 1, 2018, CSEA and AFSCME members, along with our allies in labor, civil rights and social justice organizations, remembered the Feb. 1, 1968, deaths of Memphis, Tenn. sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker with a national moment of silence. Even 50 years after the workers’ deaths, we are still working for labor, racial and economic justice. In this photo, CSEA Metropolitan Region President Lester Crockett (back row, left) and Statewide Secretary Denise Berkley (far right) and state Department of Taxation and Finance (New York City) Local members pay tribute to the workers via “I AM” signs similar to the sanitation strikers’ rallying phrase, I AM A MAN. (Photo by David Galarza)
March 2018
The Work Force
Photo by David Galarza