{"article":{"id":120386,"heading":"Mass Protest Called Of Injured and Disable Workers In Sacramento","author":"Injured Workers Coalition","created":"2004-12-21 10:46:22","modified":"2004-12-26 11:52:22","last_modified":"Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:52:22","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Resolution of the San Francisco Labor Council for a State Wide Protest <br>  <br> of Injured and Disabled Workers On Workers Memorial Day April 28, 2005. <br>  <br> Whereas, injured and disabled workers are under growing attack in their efforts to receive healthcare for their injuries and their disabilities and, <br><br> Whereas, some workers injured on the job have committed suicide as a result of not receiving medication for their injuries and, <br><br> Whereas, the right to a healthy and safe environment and the enforcement of CAL-Osha regulations is also threatened by the proposed \"restructuring\" proposals of the State Administration and, <br><br> Whereas, the right to have healthcare for injured workers and disabled workers in California is a basic human right of all working people and, <br><br> Whereas, the state administration is seeking to undermine the protection of injured and disabled workers by the complete deregulation of workers' compensation and total subservience to the insurance industry and, <br><br> Whereas, the corporate media has ignored and censored the stories of injured and disabled workers who face the loss of their healthcare and the destruction of their lives and the lives of their families and, <br><br> Whereas, the need to unite all injured and disabled workers in California is critical in order to meet the challenge that they face and, <br><br> Whereas, the issue of healthcare is a right for all working people union and non-union in California and, <br><br> Whereas, the collapse of the privately run healthcare system and the escalating costs of healthcare insurance premiums threatens the rights of healthcare to all working people, <br><br> Therefore be it resolved this body support the call by the California Injured Workers Coalition, UAPD\/AFSCME, The Chelsie Group and other injured workers organizations and health and safety groups as well as the San Francisco Labor Council to support the statewide protest on Workers Memorial Day April 28, 2005 at the capital in Sacramento for the defense of all injured and disabled workers and, <br><br> This body will support the demand healthcare for all working people by the implementation of Single Payer and, <br><br> Finally, this union or council will circulate this resolution to all California Labor Councils and Building and Trades Councils and all other affiliated bodies for concurrence and will seek to reach and support all injured and disabled workers so they can join this historic action to protect their rights. <br><br> This resolution is endorsed and supported by the following groups and organizations: <br>  <br> California Injured Workers Coalition, Inc. <br>  <br> UAPD\/AFSCME <br>  <br> San Francisco Labor Council <br>  <br> The Chelsie Group <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"samg@injuredworkerscoalition.com","link":"\r\nhttp:\/\/www.workersmemorialday.com\/sflcresolution.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The San Francisco Labor Council and other injured workers and health and safety groups have called for a mass protest on Workers Memorial Day April 28, 2005 in Sacramento to protest the attack on injured and disabled workers and to demand single payer healthcare.","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/12\/120386.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":120416,"heading":"fresca","article":"&quot; the right to have healthcare for injured workers and disabled workers in California is a basic human right of all working people and, &quot;\r\n\r\nUh, no it's not.","author":"What?","parent_id":120386,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-12-22 18:14:48","modified":"2004-12-22 18:14:48","fileurl":""},{"id":120489,"heading":"Disabled Vet Fired For Disabilities From Fed","article":"Injured and disabled workers are out of luck in today's modern era.  Help some of them when you can.\r\n\r\nI am a disabled veteran who was told I was going to be fired from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a federal agency, which was after I could not complete an extra-ordinarily long project in a very short period due to physical limitations.\r\n\r\nI did not drop my EEOC complaint so I was fired.  I was never even given a hearing.\r\n\r\nDo not believe anything about America that you do not see with your own eyes.  The myth that the USA government treats citizens all equally and with equal justice is an outright lie.\r\n\r\nSo many handicaps are left in the trenches to fend for themselves in all aspects.  \r\n\r\nWe live in a changing world but the indifference of society to the needs of the invidual are at a crisis level.\r\n\r\nMobile Audit Club\r\n\r\nFree Art Music Comedy Science and True horrors of investigating crime in government.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/zine2\/democracyordeath\/index.html","author":"Kurt Brown","parent_id":120386,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-12-25 21:52:08","modified":"2004-12-25 21:52:08","fileurl":""},{"id":120508,"heading":"it should be a right","article":"Treatment for injury from work should be a right.\r\n\r\nIt's ethical.\r\n\r\nThese injured folks should tally up the causes of their injuries.  If they discover that one company, or one piece of equipment is responsible for ruining their lives, then, they have the moral right and social responsibility to destroy that company or that equipment.","author":"more rational","parent_id":120386,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-12-26 11:52:22","modified":"2004-12-26 11:52:22","fileurl":""}]}