Comments on: Outcry http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/outcry/ A water cooler for the public health crowd Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:42:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Dina Padilla http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/outcry/#comment-37029 Dina Padilla Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:05:02 +0000 http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/?p=769#comment-37029 Lowell Bergman with PBS-FRONTLINE-N.Y.Times on super Tuesday here in Ca. aired a program on Dangerous Business about a company McWANE. It is too bad this program wasn't a must see on another date or or should be repeated. Company owners aren't held to the same standard for killing or maming someone on the job-Just misdemeanors-not felonies thanks to unregulated business operations. Here in California, Kaiser was allowed to build a hospital/clinic on a radiation hotspot. This is after discovering employees were exposed to mold. The site was bought by the city of Downey, Ca. from NASA and previously was a nuclear operations that made bombs and Kaiser bought it for about a mere 1.12 million dollars for 63 acres. Patients and employees are exposed on a daily basis to radiation, rocket fule and arsenic. People also have been dying from all types of cancers for many decades and Kaiser was allowe do build a medical faciltity on this land???. Rocky Flats comes to mind! The hot stuff was also patented. In Davis California-AgraQuest was was bringing in soil illegally, exposing researchers and who knows who else ( also in the HVAC AND WATER surrounding the lab in Davis) to fungi, pesticides and bacteria that are also patented and on the SEC for investors/investments. AgraQuest shared in tandem with UCDavis. UCDavis just got 20 mil from UK investors for bio investments. Can this be considered bio-terrorism because no one knows how this can overall affect our population? Kaiser has a long history of exposing their employees to dangerous workplace environments, such as buildings with asbestos, mold, other chemicals and just a whole myriad of dangerous working conditions. I started as an employee with kaiser in 1985 and upon becoming a union steward for SEIU, did I become aware of the many dangers to employees. Unfortunately for me and many others we were thrown out to the(insurance corporation wolves) workers compensation system and declared a discredit thanks to QME reports that could only focus on previous history that had nothing to do with work related injuries. I had reported many offenses to CAL-OSHA, The Air Resources board and to the Dept. of Health many offenses until 1992. I now know that my whistleblowing was a pain in Kaiser's operations and I was harassed and discriminated against until I had to go out on a multi-stress leave. Kaiser continues to be immune from both state and federal laws while their employees injuries are litigated for years. Legislators have done nothing for injured workers and even bringing up workers comp is taboo. The silence about injured workers is deafening. Since then I have listened to many injured workers from many companies about the travesties of the worker comp court, the selfinsured employers, insurance companies, lawyers, psuedo doctors who come form the military, all who hide behind the worst of the worst, the workers compensation arena and that this is where all the sins of corporations are criminally hidden. It looks like injured workers have no justice whatsoever. Certainly that this has beenis my experience. I guess now I can be considered a whistleblower against the whole of the comp system here in Ca. although I know THAT THIS IS A NATIONAL ISSUE I know that because of deregulations corporations/military/government are the biggest offenders to workers health in this country which to me is a holocaust on the american workers. The latest about the Kaiser Downey site should be on kaiserpapers.org Respectfully, Dina Padilla Pres.VOICES/B.E.S.T.Advocate and activist for injured workers and patients MC.R.C.Board Member kaiserpapers.org 1-916-725-2673 or Emer.cell 1-916-626-9862 Lowell Bergman with PBS-FRONTLINE-N.Y.Times on super Tuesday here in Ca. aired a program on Dangerous Business about a company McWANE.
It is too bad this program wasn’t a must see on another date or or should be repeated.
Company owners aren’t held to the same standard for killing or maming someone on the job-Just misdemeanors-not felonies thanks to unregulated business operations.
Here in California, Kaiser was allowed to build a hospital/clinic on a radiation hotspot. This is after discovering employees were exposed to mold. The site was bought by the city of Downey, Ca. from NASA and previously was a nuclear operations that made bombs and Kaiser bought it for about a mere 1.12 million dollars for 63 acres.
Patients and employees are exposed on a daily basis to radiation, rocket fule and arsenic. People also have been dying from all types of cancers for many decades and Kaiser was allowe do build a medical faciltity on this land???. Rocky Flats comes to mind! The hot stuff was also patented.

In Davis California-AgraQuest was was bringing in soil illegally, exposing researchers and who knows who else ( also in the HVAC AND WATER surrounding the lab in Davis) to fungi, pesticides and bacteria that are also patented and on the SEC for investors/investments. AgraQuest shared in tandem with UCDavis. UCDavis just got 20 mil from UK investors for bio investments. Can this be considered bio-terrorism because no one knows how this can overall affect our population?
Kaiser has a long history of exposing their employees to dangerous workplace environments, such as buildings with asbestos, mold, other chemicals and just a whole myriad of dangerous working conditions.
I started as an employee with kaiser in 1985 and upon becoming a union steward for SEIU, did I become aware of the many dangers to employees. Unfortunately for me and many others we were thrown out to the(insurance corporation wolves) workers compensation system and declared a discredit thanks to QME reports that could only focus on previous history that had nothing to do with work related injuries. I had reported many offenses to CAL-OSHA, The Air Resources board and to the Dept. of Health many offenses until 1992. I now know that my whistleblowing was a pain in Kaiser’s operations and I was harassed and discriminated against until I had to go out on a multi-stress leave. Kaiser continues to be immune from both state and federal laws while their employees injuries are litigated for years. Legislators have done nothing for injured workers and even bringing up workers comp is taboo. The silence about injured workers is deafening.
Since then I have listened to many injured workers from many companies about the travesties of the worker comp court, the selfinsured employers, insurance companies, lawyers, psuedo doctors who come form the military, all who hide behind the worst of the worst, the workers compensation arena and that this is where all the sins of corporations are criminally hidden. It looks like injured workers have no justice whatsoever. Certainly that this has beenis my experience. I guess now I can be considered a whistleblower against the whole of the comp system here in Ca. although I know THAT THIS IS A NATIONAL ISSUE
I know that because of deregulations corporations/military/government are the biggest offenders to workers health in this country which to me is a holocaust on the american workers.
The latest about the Kaiser Downey site should be on kaiserpapers.org
Respectfully,
Dina Padilla
Pres.VOICES/B.E.S.T.Advocate and activist for injured workers and patients
MC.R.C.Board Member
kaiserpapers.org
1-916-725-2673 or Emer.cell 1-916-626-9862

]]> By: beam http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/outcry/#comment-37004 beam Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:42:42 +0000 http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/?p=769#comment-37004 this should surprise no one...we can expect no less from these eggsucking greedheads- gourge themselves at the public trough, then foul the nest.. this should surprise no one…we can expect no less from these eggsucking greedheads- gourge themselves at the public trough, then foul the nest..

]]> By: Tammy http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/outcry/#comment-36995 Tammy Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:38:51 +0000 http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/?p=769#comment-36995 I hate to have to use you all as a plug but we have a petition located at http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/2008/02/petition-powered-by-thepetitionsite.html We haven't made the signature requirement too high so there shouldn't be a problem getting them if you sign it and tell a friend. I will send it out to the families at the end of the month so show them your support and in this case it is near and dear to my heart. Thanks to those who have already! I hate to have to use you all as a plug but we have a petition located at http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/2008/02/petition-powered-by-thepetitionsite.html

We haven’t made the signature requirement too high so there shouldn’t be a problem getting them if you sign it and tell a friend. I will send it out to the families at the end of the month so show them your support and in this case it is near and dear to my heart. Thanks to those who have already!

]]> By: Terrie Albano http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/outcry/#comment-36963 Terrie Albano Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:12:02 +0000 http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/?p=769#comment-36963 There was a question at the AFL-CIO debate in Soldier Field asked by a wife of a Sago miner about health and safety at the workplace. She asked Joe Biden who didn't answer it at all but went back to a previous question/answer on Pakistan. The crowd booed him for not answering the question. There was a question at the AFL-CIO debate in Soldier Field asked by a wife of a Sago miner about health and safety at the workplace. She asked Joe Biden who didn’t answer it at all but went back to a previous question/answer on Pakistan. The crowd booed him for not answering the question.

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