4/28 Workers Memorial Day Protest

For Workers’ Memorial Day 2005
Stop Terrorizing Injured Workers
Single Payer For All

Sacramento Capital On W. Steps on 11:00 am April 28, 2005


Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Injured and disabled workers are under direct attack. As a result of the deregulation of the California Workers’ Comp System, insurance companies can refuse to care for injured and disabled workers and are not penalized. The governor and the Democrats have both passed a bill that destroys our health & safety.
Already injured workers have been unable to get proper medical care, payments for their housing and their families. Some workers have committed suicide. We cannot afford to let this continue. While profits are going up for the insurance billionaires like Buffet, retraining benefits have been permanently cut and now temporary workers’ comp is limited to two years. The media has ignored and censored the plight of the injured workers. Instead of exposing the daily nightmares we face, they are only concerned about the insurance companies and the employers. Workers’ Comp was established to protect our rights and not the profit of the insurance companies yet today, they are making a giant profit off of our misery.
Health and safety on the job is also being threatened. When workers realize that they will not be receiving care when they are injured on the job this will create even more of a stressful and dangerous condition on the job. Every day in California, two workers die on the job and this is bound to grow unless injured and disabled workers along with their families and the entire labor movement stand together now to defend our basic rights. We need tens of thousands of disabled and injured worker in Sacramento.
At the same time we believe that all workers should be entitled to healthcare. We need to push now for single payer in California and get the insurance companies out of the healthcare industry!
Please join our organizing committee and we will provide a speaker and videos for organizing. Also if you can, get your organization to endorse this. Buses will leave from SF, the E.Bay and the South Bay
For more information, (415) 867-0628, http://www.workersmemorialday.com P.O. Box 720027, SF 94172
California Injured Workers Coalition (415) 738-2184 http://www.injuredworkerscoalition.com
San Francisco - San Francisco Labor Council , (415) 440-4809 info [at] sflaborcouncil.org
South Bay Area - The Chelsie Group, (408) 347-0331, billmeyer [at] chelsiegroup.org
North Bay Area - (707) 795-0783, fightN4yourlife [at] aol.com
Sacramento Area - Dina Padilla (916) 725-2673 blndi26 [at] cs.com
Los Angeles Area - Christine Pietz (818) 846-1632 Cpietz [at] sbcglobal.net
Monterey/Santa Cruz Area - Barri Boone (831) 465-9786, unmaid [at] pacific.net

Busses will leave from San Francsico, Oakland and the South Bay


This rally is endorsed by: SF Labor Council, N. Bay Labor Council, S. Bay Labor Council, IBT Jt Council 7, CA Injured Workers Coalition, Inc., UTLA-AFT1021, SEIU 790, UAPD/AFSCME, NALC 214, CWA 9423, CWA Dist. Council 9, CWA 9410, UA 393, SEIU 535 Disability Caucus , ATU1555, UAW 2244, Sign & Display Union 510, ILWU10, SEIU 415, BAC 3, AMFA 9, KPFA, KPFA Labor Collective, The Chelsie Group, Labor Action Coalition (LAC), Million Worker Movement, Labor Video Project, FACE Intel, Dr. June Fisher, Dr. Larry Rose, Victims of UPS/Red Thursday Committee, Pushing Limits-KPFA, Jerome Otis; Pres. N.Cal Chapt. TNBC, Voters Injured at Work., Butte County Health Care Coalition, Healthcare For All-California, WILPF-SC