SEIU Health and Safety Program

In honor of Workers Memorial Day I've had the awesome opportunity to co-lead on a program my local will present on Tuesday. We'll have a full-day of teaching / learning on workplace violence prevention and couch that all within WOrkers Memorial Day.

The VP of my IU will do a presentation on lateral violence (bullying).

A woman who was pivotal in getting the first ever Workers Memorial Day on the calendar will present on that history and how it is intrinsically tied in with where we are today; how and where we have so much more work to do.

A mentor of mine put together a presentation on workplace violence legislation moving in other states around the country and though he won't be with us on Tuesday, I am filling in for him.

We will have an executive officer of Cal/OSHA come and give us a primer so that we know and understand our rights as they are now, how to exercise them, and then what we need to think to build on for the future.

I will give a presentation on "Moving it Forward," for lack of a better title. The focus of my presentation will be on empowerment, communication, getting to "our story" and getting our story out.

The image with this post is my awful attempt at taking a picture of the badge we made for the day.

If you are in Southern California Tuesday ... I know where you can get some good coffee, meet some cool people and learn and share what you know about workers working to keeping ourselves safe, alive and well. (email me if you are, in fact, in town). -Richard