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On May 5-6, District 7 and the Union's Occupational Safety and Health Department conducted the District's Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Retreat. The retreat was held for the primary purposes of bringing local OSH health activists together to discuss, coordinate, and develop tactics and strategies focused upon identifying, preventing, and/or resolving member workplace safety and health hazards and related illnesses, injuries, and fatalities, share information on successes and failures, and establish and further communication and networking between and among national, district, and local OSH activists.

Beginning February 1 through April 30, 2006, employers must post a summary of the total number of work-related injuries and illnesses that occurred in 2005. This information, contained on the OSHA 300A Log or an equivalent form, will provide an indication of the employer?s provision of safe and healthful working conditions.

Please join us at the National Labor College as we commemorate Workers Memorial Day on April 28. As you will see on the attached flyer, the program begins with a 1 p.m. seminar on "Winning Benefits and Compensation for Those Whose Health Was Damaged in Rescue and Cleanup at the World Trade Center." The panel will have activists and victims from the tragedy. At 2:30 we will begin a candlelight ceremony remembering those who have died from workplace injury and illness.

On April 28, 2008, CWA and the U.S. labor movement will once again celebrate and observe Workers' Memorial Day to remember those who have become ill, injured, or killed on the job, as well as to renew our fight for strong safety and health protections. Participation in Workers' Memorial Day -- 2008 is of particular significance to CWA. During the last year, we lost four of our members to workplace fatalities. In addition, many of our members have suffered work-related injuries, illnesses, and "near misses"; in some cases, suffering severe medical disorders because of these incidents.