SF Workers Memorial Day Event

There will be a 3:00 PM press conference in front of the Pfizer Research facility in the UCSF Mission Bay biotech center.
Biotech workers and their family members along with experts on nanotechnology will report on the need for health and safety protection and proper oversight of new technology in the workplace and the environment.
Becky McClain, an injured Pfizer biotech molecular biologist who was working with stem cell research will be making a report on the unreported dangers in this industry and what needs to be done to protect workers in this industry.
This press conference will be
In front of Pfizer Research Facility - 455 Mission Bay Boulevard South at 3rd St., SF, next to
the New UCSF Biotech China Basin building.

At 7:00 PM on Tuesday April 28, 2009 there will be a speak-out by injured workers, health and safety experts and family members who have been either injured or killed on the job.
Workers Memorial Day was established to commemorate and defend workers injured and killed
on the job. This year, the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day (CCWMD) will also focus on the need for health and safety protection, regulation and standards for new industries such as biotechnology and nanotechnology. These industries are not properly regulated with strong
health and safety standards. The CCWMD is calling for national Congressional hearings on these issues and also for the defense of injured workers who face a deregulated workers comp system in which seriously injured workers are not able to get proper healthcare and compensation. We need to get the insurance industry out of healthcare, so all workers can get healthcare.
The elimination of all doctors at Ca-Osha is another dangerous threat to the health and safety of 17 million workers of California particularly those facing the use of new technology in the workplace. Many dangerous toxic sites in Northern California and around the country have
been privatized and labeled “Brownfield” sites. Workers, veterans and community people have
also been sickened by the failure to clean these sites.
Speakers at the San Francisco Workers Memorial Day event includes: Shiela Davis, Executive Director Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition, Daniel Berman, author of Death on The Job, Becky McClain, injured Pfizer molecular biologist, Dina Padilla injured Kaiser worker, Carl Bryant, NALC Local 214, Mary Vivenzi, Sandi Trend, Mike Daley, Iron Workers Local 377 on 9/11 NYC First Responders, also representatives from the ILWU and
The forum will be taking place at ILWU Local 34 which is
located on the North side of the AT&T ballpark at 2nd St. and Embarcadero in San Francisco.

Tuesday 7:00 PM
Location
ILWU Local 34 - 2nd St/Embarcadero on the north side of AT&T Park
Free Parking at ILUW Local 34

California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day (CCWMD)
P.O. Box 720027, San Francisco, CA 94172
(415) 867-0628
http://www.workersmemorialday.org