IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE

Once again, Local 94 has been the first responder. 

If you were affected by the Con Edison steam incident of July 18th and have incurred losses you can place a claim for reimbursement of these losses with Con Edison using the form below.  Also, please contact your business agent regarding your loss.

          ConEdison Claim form for Reimbursement due to Steam Incident at East 41st Street

          ConEdison Stream Explosion Frozen Zone Map

 Liebert Safety Notice

Welcome to I.U.O.E Local 94 Health & Safety page. At this time the O.S.H.A. regulations pertainning to our members have not been posted on this site. However, you may click http://www.osha-slc.gov/ to tranfer to O.S.H.A. In the future we will update interpretations of the O.S.H.A. regulations on this page. Below is an article published in the January/February Labor Newsletter.

Title of the Article is Help sought in battle to save OSHA

Peg Seminario, director of the AFL-CIO's Department of Occupational Safety and Health, is asking all division members to voice their support for OSHA in response to renewed congressional attacks on the agency. Following is the text of a memo she wrote urging members to respond to the challenge.

 

A new OSHA "Deform: bill (S1237/H.R.2579) was introduced on Sept 30, 1997, by Senator Enza(R-WY) and Gregg(R-NH) and Rep. Talent(R-MO). This bill is a retread of last year's OSHA "Deform" legislation (very similar to the Gregg/Kassebaum bills).

The bill would:

  • Take away OSHA's enforcement mandate.
  • Take away the right of workers to geyt an onsite inspection in response to a valid complaint.
  • Privatize safety and health inspections.
  • Immunize employers from penalties
  • Limit worker and union rights in other ways

This bill is the most serious OSHA Deform threat we have faced this Congress. The bill was introduced with 20 co-sponsors in the Senate and seven co-sponsors in the House, including four Democrats (Goode-Va, Bishop-GA, Stenholm-TX and Dooley-CA).

Some Republicans, particularly in the Senate, are trying to ram the bill through and we have to move now to stop this legislation. Here's what you can do: Contact Senator Jim Jeffords, chairman of the Senate Labor Committe, and other members of the committe, and tell them this bill will hurt workers' safety and health, and that there should be hearings on the bill before any mark-up.

Contact your senators and representatives and let them know that S.1237/H.R.2579 will weaken safety and health protections. Ask them no to co-sponsor s.1237/H.R.2579 and to oppose this anti-worker legislation.

The telephone number for the Senate is (202)224-3121; for the House, the number is (202)225-3121. Please contact AFL-CIO Department of Safety and Health of you have any questions (202)637-5366, or email: Pseminario@compuserve.com.