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LIFT EVERY VOICE NYCOSH Annual Report 2014-2015

EDITORKarla M. Andreu, MPAOperations and Development Director, NYCOSH

ADDITIONAL EDITINGCharlene ObernauerExecutive Director, NYCOSH

Mónica NovoaCommunications Director, NYCOSH

DESIGNERHatty Lee

ACCESS OUR ANNUAL REPORT online: nycosh.org/annual-report/

New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health61 Broadway, Ste 1710, NY, NY 10006 212 227 6440 • nycosh@nycosh.org • nycosh.org • @NYCOSH

Dedicated to the workers of New York, their families, communities

and wellbeing – valuable beyond any labor, above any profit.

“”

There’s really no such thing as the

‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately

silenced, or the preferably unheard. –Arundhati Roy

Dear friends and supporters,

NYCOSH made tremendous strides to create safer and healthier workplaces, communities, and the environment in our 2014-2015 program year. Whether we shared space with nail salon workers and their customers, 9/11 responders and survivors, young people, nannies, or nurses—together we moved the dial toward justice with the values of equity, collaboration and camaraderie. We are continuously energized by working people, families and communities on the frontline, seeking justice in their own lives.

Our story is unfolding in a clear direction. Workers are the heart of NYCOSH. Following our heart is about creating safer and healthier workplaces, communities, and the environment; in a way that that connects and advances human rights, public health and racial justice in New York State. Our work this year has continued along four fronts: 1) Our long-acclaimed safety and health education and training; 2) Top-notch technical expertise for workers’ centers and unions; 3) Collaborative strategies and coalition-based campaigns; and 4) Advocacy for people-first practices and policies. We’ve also increased our capacity and impact by growing our budget, staff, and membership in New York’s metropolitan area and across the state.

In the past year, NYCOSH has changed the conversation to highlight the disproportionate impact of construction fatalities on non-union and immigrant workers, and to expose contractors whose criminal negligence caused an innocent person to die. During an emergency for our City, NYCOSH took action to educate New Yorkers

about Ebola and Legionnaires’ Disease—making sure communities, unions, and individual workers were armed with the facts to organize, speak out and protect themselves.

Most notably, we have moved the dial toward justice through our work with the New York Healthy Nail Salons Coalition, which we launched in 2014 with the Queens-based human rights organization, Adhikaar. We collaborated with New York City Public Advocate Letitia James and with workers and advocates from immigrant and consumer rights to protect public and reproductive health. The Coalition’s work culminated in historic legislation passed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to improve safety and health in nail salons for both customers and a workforce majorly comprised of immigrant women.

We leave you with the words of a Latina manicurist at a packed NYCOSH training, “The Nail Salon Workers’ Bill of Rights reminds us that we have a voice at work, and that if we are being abused, there’s something we can do.”

There’s always something we can do. In solidarity,

Charlene Obernauer NYCOSH Executive Director

Lee Clarke NYCOSH Board Chair

FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Charlene Obernauer NYCOSH Executive Director

Lee Clarke NYCOSH Board Chair

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The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, NYCOSH, is a membership organization of workers, unions, community-based organizations, workers’ rights activists, and health and safety professionals. NYCOSH uses training, education, and advocacy to improve health and safety conditions in our workplaces, our communities, and our environment. Founded in 1979 on the principle that workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths are preventable, NYCOSH works to extend and defend every person’s right to a safe and healthy workplace.

OUR MISSION : STANDING WITH WORKERS

NYCOSH stands at the intersection of many issues:

immigrant rights, women’s rights, public health, and racial,

environmental and economic justice. Our programs

and campaigns strengthen workers and their families

in all of these movements.

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Adhikaar and NYCOSH advised Public Advocate’s office on drafting of legislation (September 2014 – April 2015).

Testified at council hearing at introduction of Public Advocate’s city bill (May 1, 2015)

The New York Times runs “The Price of Nice Nails” and “Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers” and recognizes our Coalition in the “Justice for Nail Salon Workers” Editorial (May, 2015)

Adhikaar releases “Behind the Polish,” a participatory research project revealing poor working conditions such as the majority of Nepali speaking nail salon workers earning between $40 and $70 a day, some as low as $30 a day. (May 20, 2015)

Governor Cuomo announces emergency regulations and legislation to improve nail salons in NY State and begins to strategize with our Coalition (May, 2015).

New emergency regulations and the NY Bill of Rights for Nail Salon Workers are put into effect. (May, 2015)

NYS Legislature unanimously passes historic legislation to establish a new training and licensing program and authorize NY’s Department of State to shut down salons that break the law.

Partnership with Public Advocate led to a reported increase in inspectors of nail salons (Jan – April, 2015)

NYCOSH 2014–2015 BY THE NUMBERS Adhikaar and NYCOSH launched the NY Healthy Nail Salons Coalition, summer 2014

NYCOSH participated in the release of the report How Safe is Your Salon, with Public Advocate Leticia James calling for an increase in the number of nail salon inspectors (September, 2014)

NYCOSH 2014-2015 by the Numbers NYCOSH turned 36 this year

3 Reports published450 Young people trained

121 Member unions and community organizations10, 414 People reached for the World Trade Center Health Program391 Technical assistance calls to address workplace hazards5 Events in partnership with the NYC Central Labor CouncilPlease leave room for one more huge number to be represented in bigger print – it’s going to be about media reach.

70,184,955 Total circulation for media hits

TRAINING SESSIONS

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17,000 PEOPLE TRAINED

17,000 PEOPLE TRAINED

500 NAIL SALON WORKERS TRAINED

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CALLS TO ADDRESS WORKPLACE HAZARDS

391

MEMBER UNIONS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

REPORTS PUBLISHED

5 EVENTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NYC CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL

17,000 People trained

NYCOSH TURNED

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36

10,414 PEOPLE REACHED FOR THE WORLD TRADE CENTER HEALTH PROGRAM

450 TEENS TRAINED

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70,184,955 TOTAL CIRCULATION FOR MEDIA HITS

QUALITY INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCH is crucial for worker-first informed advocacy and policymaking. NYCOSH’s staff engages with workers to conduct research that creates healthy jobs and communities. This year, we put out the first fact sheet geared toward worker safety and health after the emergence of Ebola in the United States. With our fast and sophisticated research on infectious diseases, we also published a quantitative and qualitative report with recommendations on how airports and the contractors they hire can and must prevent hazardous conditions that protect workers and travelers alike.

Our research has been quoted in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Washington Post, MSNBC, and many other outlets. We amplify labor and community voices backed by scientific evidence, on the-ground testimonies, and technical experience.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIESresearch

Airport Safety Starts with Safer Working Conditions, Fall 2014

The Price of Life: 2015 Report on Construction

Fatalities in NYC, Spring 2015

Health and Hardship, Stories from 9/11’s Unsung Heroes, Researched, Spring 2015

2015 RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

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This May, NYCOSH was joined by the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Build Up NYC and El Centro del Inmigrante at a press conference to release the study, “Price of Life: 2015 Report on Construction Fatalities in NYC,” which outlines the true conditions of the city’s poorly regulated, unsafe construction sites. Researchers found that construction accounts for a disproportionate number of accidents, with the vast majority of fatalities occurring at non-union sites with immigrant and/or Latino workers.

HIGHLIGHT: THE PRICE OF LIFE

Tamara Brummer, Communications Director for Build Up NYC, discussing The Price of Life report

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING IS A KEY COMPONENT to build workers’ knowledge on the job. Across industries, from construction to health care to commercial waste, workers are dramatically failed by employers and their government when they are not provided with safe and healthy jobs where their lives are protected. According to the US Department of Labor, in 2014, a total of 203 New Yorkers died on the job. While the injury data is much higher than what is reported—especially for non-union and undocumented workers—the data on fatalities from occupational diseases is not even captured, but is estimated to be ten times higher than annual fatality figures.

To prevent injuries and fatalities, NYCOSH trained close to 17,000 people in multiple languages, a 20% increase from last year. Trainings covered the eastern most area of Long Island, Saratoga Springs, and all of the five boroughs.

education and training

“NYCOSH is a crucial resource for all working people, including those who are non-union, undocumented and formerly incarcerated. We want everyone to know their rights on the job and to become empowered to talk about workplace safety and health.” – Lee Clarke, Board Chair

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Our events and forums in collaboration with the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, and the Long Island Federation of Labor and dozens of trainings conducted by NYCOSH health and safety specialists covered a range of topics including: ergonomics, youth safety, workplace violence, reproductive health and sexual harassment on the job, infectious diseases, asbestos and others. Our “know your rights” training is a model for empowering workers to stand up for themselves on their job sites. Our trainees included young workers, women’s groups, formerly incarcerated people, musicians, nail salon and domestic workers, and unions focused on nursing, transportation, teachers, and various building and construction trades.

Over the years, NYCOSH has trained over one hundred thousand workers in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley; conducted educational conferences for hundreds of workers on the disproportionate hazards on the job facing immigrant and low-wage workers, workers’ compensation, workplace violence, asbestos, office hazards, and ergonomics; and provided thousands of various technical assistance consultations on issues ranging from the aftermath of a wastewater treatment plant explosion and lab safety in schools.

Our “know your rights” training is a model for empowering workers to stand up for themselves on their job sites.

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HIGHLIGHT: TEEN LEADERS

Tsedale Forbes and Byron Palmer, 2 of the 12 Teen Trainers in 2015

Under our Teen Peer Leader Project, two teens, Vaughnessa Alexander and Rebecca Sanchez, led efforts to train an additional 12 teens to become trainers and lead training sessions during the summer for their peers on workplace safety and health, with a focus on workplace violence. The 12 teens paired up and trained 450 young people. NYCOSH teens also conducted a summer social media campaign, using Instagram to promote messages about safety at work.

We also worked with our partners in the New York State Young Worker Safety and Health network resulting in a proclamation issued by Governor Cuomo, declaring June “Teen Worker Safety Month” in New York State.

“We are happy about the proclamation—now we want to urge legislators to work with us to better educate young people, employers, our parents, our teachers, and others about teen safety. We are injured on the job at twice the rate of adult workers, and we need to join forces to address this problem,” said Ms. Alexander.

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HIGHLIGHT: DYNAMIC TRAINING

Domestic workers are employed in hundreds of thousands of households across our city, providing invaluable assistance in helping New Yorkers manage and maintain a good home life. While this work can be rewarding, there are many hazards that are associated with domestic work. In partnership with The Worker Institute at Cornell University, we connected with Damayan homecare workers and nannies for trainings where we created hazard maps and most importantly, ways to work more safely and to live healthier lives. “The hazard maps we created made me more aware of the home as a workplace and the training gave me the tools to think about how to plan and prevent hazards.” –Judith, a worker leader at Damayan Migrant Workers Association

Damayan workers at our training, Spring 2015

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OUR TEAM COORDINATES CAMPAIGNS informed and co-led by workers. In May of 2015, NYCOSH won a historic statewide policy that is having a national ripple effect, through the New York Healthy Nail Salons Coalition which we co-founded with Adhikaar in 2014. This year as New York City faces a construction boom, we also worked to protect the state’s Scaffold Safety Law to keep construction workers safe and hold contractors accountable. As we approached the 14th anniversary of the World Trade Center tragedy, we promoted the reauthorization of the Zadroga Act, which provides access to healthcare for 9/11 responders and survivors who were exposed to toxins at ground zero.

Our policy victories are rooted in the work of NYCOSH founders and long-time activists who have fought for and won important battles in the safety and health movement. Going back to the 1980s, NYCOSH successfully advocated for the NYS Hazard Abatement Safety and Health Program legislation which resulted in the creation of the statewide Hazard Abatement Board to provide funding for worker trainings to prevent injuries on the job, the creation of the statewide occupational health clinics network, and notably in the mid-2000s we advocated to protect independent air quality testing after 9/11.

driving policy change

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NY Healthy Nail Salons Coalition members testified at City Hall on May Day - the most powerful testimony submitted was that of Suri Malla, a worker leader at Adhikaar (excerpt):

My friends complain about developing allergies. Proper ventilation is very important to have a healthy working environment in nail salons. I am lucky to have a separate kitchen in my salon where I can eat. Most nail salon workers are not as lucky. They do not get to eat on time and are exposed to chemicals while eating.Nail salons need to change these conditions. This is a place where people come to feel beautiful. This shouldn’t happen at the expense of workers like us. Nail salons should be healthy for everyone.

Nail salon workers at a training with Workers United and NYCOSH

HIGHLIGHT: NAIL SALON WORKER POWER

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NYCOSH worked in collaboration with the Justice for Delfino campaign this year, led by Mónica Velasquéz and El Centro del Inmigrante, a worker center in Staten Island where she is a member. Mónica’s father Delfino Velásquez was killed in November of 2014 due to unsafe workplace conditions when the ceiling of a car dealership he was demolishing, collapsed. According to records at the NYC Buildings Department, her father’s employer, Formica Construction, did not have a valid permit to work at Dana Ford dealership. “We mourn, but we are also fighting to get justice for my father holding OSHA, the DOB and Formica Construction accountable. We also believe that the city has to take responsibility to protect workers and ensure that any City agency does not approve licenses to criminal contractors,” she said.

HIGHLIGHT: CAMPAIGN COLLABORATION

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Mónica Velasquéz leading a rally with the Justice for Delfino Campaign

NYCOSH CONTINUES TO MOVE LOCAL, state and national public discourse as we embed strategic communications across all of our work to amplify the message that worker health is public health. Our team publicizes research and reports and our campaign and coalition work. Additionally, reporters look upon NYCOSH as a reputable media source for technical expertise and valuable timely analysis on the ins and outs of occupational safety and health.

A major part of our work is to create dialogue around worker health, environment and labor issues and we spearhead awareness initiatives tied to activism, advocacy and organizing. We spotlight our own news through our Safety Rep newsletter and keep members engaged via social media. We reach and influence policy-makers, consumers and everyone in between on high-profile issues in the New York Daily News, New York Times, Labor Press, Safety + Health Magazine and many other outlets.

Newsstand favorites:

• “Public Advocate Leticia James seeks crackdown on toxic chemicals used at nail salons”, New York Daily News, September 15, 2014

• “Worker safety groups asks de Blasio for executive order mandating Ebola protocols”, New York Daily News, October 26, 2014

• “Justice for Nail Salon Workers”, The New York Times, May 11, 2015

• “NYCOSH releases annual report on New York Construction Fatalities”, Safety + Health Magazine, May 19th, 2015

• “Health and Hardship: Caring for 9/11s Heroes”, Labor Press, September 15, 2015

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NY Healthy Nail Salons Coalition: A Shared Policy Victory

THIS YEAR WE CALLED FOR DRAMATIC CHANGE to the ugly reality behind pretty nails. Our position is clear: the price of beauty cannot be paid with the backs, necks and lungs of non-union low-wage workers and their families. The NY Healthy Nail Salons Coalition’s (NYHNSC) mission is to transform the nail salon industry in New York, by organizing workers and engaging consumers in support of nail salon worker organizing, promoting improved working conditions through monitoring and enforcement, and fostering industry-wide policy change.

In 2014-15, NYHNSC was a key player in local, state and federal conversations. Locally, we partnered with Public Advocate Letitia James in the Summer of 2014 on both a report, How Safe is Your Salon, and the release of City-wide legislation in the Spring of 2015. Our first win at the State level was historic, with the passing of healthy nail salon legislation championed by Governor Cuomo to protect workers and consumers and hold salon owners accountable. With a new trainee licensing system, a nail salon workers’ bill of rights, wage bonds to guarantee workers’ wages, and proposed ventilation requirements—thousands of New York’s immigrant women nail salon workers are more protected.

There is now a real need for affordable worker education at the local level that can help workers successfully navigate the new training requirements, and worker organizing to truly enforce the new laws. Additionally, as we continue to advocate for healthy nail salons in New York, we are working to pioneer national strategies that create federal regulations and corporate shifts to improve the products that consumers purchase and workers utilize.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

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The price of beauty cannot be paid with the backs, necks and lungs of non-union low-wage workers and their families.

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NYHNSC advised Public Advocate’s office on drafting of legislation; our partnership led to a reported increase in inspectors of nail salons, September 2014 – April 2015

NYHNSC testified at council hearing at introduction of Public Advocate’s city bill, May 1, 2015

The New York Times runs “The Price of Nice Nails” and “Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers” and recognizes our Coalition in the “Justice for Nail Salon Workers” Editorial, May, 2015

Adhikaar releases “Behind the Polish,” a participatory research project revealing poor working conditions such as the majority of Nepali speaking nail salon workers earning between $40 and $70 a day, some as low as $30 a day, May 20, 2015

Governor Cuomo announces emergency regulations and legislation to improve nail salons in NY State and begins to strategize with our Coalition, May, 2015

New emergency regulations and the NY Bill of Rights for Nail Salon Workers are put into effect, May, 2015 NYS Legislature unanimously passes historic

legislation, Bills A. 7630A / S. 05966, to establish a new training and licensing program and authorize NY’s Department of State to shut down salons that break the law.

PATHWAY TO VICTORY!

Adhikaar and NYCOSH launched the NY Healthy Nail Salons Coalition (NYHNSC), summer 2014

NYHNSC participated in the release of the report “How Safe is Your Salon?”, with Public Advocate Letitia James calling for an increase in the number of nail salon inspectors, September, 2014

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“It is not about documented and undocumented. It’s about fair wages and fair pay and fair hours,” Governor Cuomo, July 16, 2015.

NYHNSC leaders with Governor Cuomo at nail salon workers’ bill signing ceremony in July.

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The New York Healthy Nail Salons Coalition puts safety and health activism into action to build people power that creates systemic and long term change for workers, consumers, and the environment.

NYHNSC Steering Committee: Adhikaar, Workers United and NYCOSH. Members: NY Lawyers for the Public Interest, Planned Parenthood, National Employment Law Project, National Asian Pacific American Women’s ForumNYHNSC advised Public Advocate’s office

on drafting of legislation; our partnership led to a reported increase in inspectors of nail salons, September 2014 – April 2015

NYHNSC testified at council hearing at introduction of Public Advocate’s city bill, May 1, 2015

The New York Times runs “The Price of Nice Nails” and “Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers” and recognizes our Coalition in the “Justice for Nail Salon Workers” Editorial, May, 2015

Adhikaar releases “Behind the Polish,” a participatory research project revealing poor working conditions such as the majority of Nepali speaking nail salon workers earning between $40 and $70 a day, some as low as $30 a day, May 20, 2015

Governor Cuomo announces emergency regulations and legislation to improve nail salons in NY State and begins to strategize with our Coalition, May, 2015

New emergency regulations and the NY Bill of Rights for Nail Salon Workers are put into effect, May, 2015 NYS Legislature unanimously passes historic

legislation, Bills A. 7630A / S. 05966, to establish a new training and licensing program and authorize NY’s Department of State to shut down salons that break the law.

PATHWAY TO VICTORY!

Adhikaar and NYCOSH launched the NY Healthy Nail Salons Coalition (NYHNSC), summer 2014

NYHNSC participated in the release of the report “How Safe is Your Salon?”, with Public Advocate Letitia James calling for an increase in the number of nail salon inspectors, September, 2014

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Justice for Nail Salon Workers

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD MAY 11, 2015

Excerpt:

This is where government must build upon many years of work by grassroots labor organizations. One example is the New York Healthy Nail Salons Coalition, led by the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, and Adhikaar, which means “rights” in Nepali. Adhikaar, based in Queens, has been giving Nepali nail salon workers health and safety training and encouraging the creation of “green” salons using nontoxic products.

Workers’ organizations like these play a role in bridging the gaps where government and law enforcement fall short. Like the “carwasheros” in Los Angeles and New York, the farm workers and street-corner day laborers who have set up workers’ centers across the country to fight for better wages and workplace safety, the workers of nail salons can stand up for their rights — as they should, with our support.

A version of this editorial appears in print on May 12, 2015, on page A22 of the New York edition with the headline: Justice for Nail Salon Workers.

Excerpt from “Justice for Nail Salon Workers,” The New York Times

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HIGHLIGHT: WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY

NYCOSH commemorated Workers’ Memorial Day in 2015 in partnership with the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, and with participation from clergy, the NYC Community Alliance for Workers Justice, Make the Road New York and unions including TWU Local 100 and DC37 AFSCME. The annual commemoration was held at the southeast corner of 7th Ave. and 14th St., where NYC bus operator William Peña, 49, was killed by an intoxicated driver in February of 2014. “No one deserves to lose their life when they’re simply doing a job to provide for their family,” said his partner, Nancy Rodriguez who continues to seek justice with her family.

Nancy Rodríguez, Workers’ Memorial Day 2015

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NYCOSH IS A NATIONAL LEADER WORKING to ensure that 9/11 responders and survivors get the healthcare and compensation they need. Fourteen years after the 9/11 disaster, responders and survivors are suffering from numerous medical conditions such as asthma, sleep apnea, and cancer to name a few among a list of over 100 different illnesses related to exposure to the WTC-derived contaminants. NIOSH’s WTC Health Program, established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act in 2011, brings specialized medical monitoring and treatment to more than 72,000 responders and survivors. This year, the Act expired and if not reauthorized, will mean the loss of health care and compensation to thousands of responders and survivors who assisted our city in a time of great need.

NYCOSH calls on members, supporters and legislators to ensure that care is permanent for 9/11 responders and survivors through the re-authorization of the James Zadroga Act. NYCOSH has amped up efforts to enroll responders and survivors in the program in attempt to close the wide gap between the number those who were exposed to WTC-derived contaminants and the number of those enrolled in the program. Over the last year we strengthened our outreach to unions, labor organizations, and community-based organizations within the NY Metro area as well as expanded our outreach nationally to the occupational safety and health community. As part of this effort, NYCOSH set the groundwork to launch a pilot Safety & Health Promoter Program with five community-based organizations (100 Black Construction Workers, Laundry Workers Center Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, Staten Island Community Jobs Center and Workplace Project) throughout the city and Long Island in order to improve our outreach on the WTC Health Program to hard-to-reach workers that were involved in the 9/11 response.

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THANKS TO THE CONTINUOUS GENEROSITY of our long-term supporters and members, NYCOSH raised a record of $1,808,902.92 MM in fiscal year 2014-15, up from $1,552,976 in 2013-14. Growth for the past three years has been just over 20%. This growth continues a pattern of increasing interest in support for NYCOSH’s work. This coming year, we will be working to continue building and diversifying our funding base and spearheading a strategic plan in our four key program areas: education and training, nail salons, disaster preparedness and youth programming; while spearheading workers’ compensation and domestic workers’ labor policy work. This reporting year, 88% of funds were spent in programs and 12% in Administration and Fundraising.

FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

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45%13%

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State

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Earned Income

Completed audited financial statement will become available this coming Spring 2016.

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NYCOSH SUPPORTERS 2014-2015

WE THANK OUR SUPPORTERS FOR HELPING US BUILD THE MOVEMENT FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH.

1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East32BJ SEIUAFM, Local 802AFT, Local 3882, UCATSAlexander RosadoAlice FruendAmalgamated Transit Union InternationalAnn ArlenAnn SchneiderAnthony DevitoArt WilcoxArthur SchwartzATU Local 1056Baldwin Teachers AssociationBarasch & McGarry, P.C.Bay Shore Classroom Teachers AssociationBejamin GamoranBellevue/NYU Occupational and Environmental Health CenterBellmore Merrick United Secondary Teachers AssociationBen ChevatBenjamin PalmquistBerger Marks FoundationBernard KahnBeverly De Monterice

Bill DavisBilly HoldenBrenda BerkmanBrendan GriffithBrentwood Teachers AssociationBrett RubinBridge and Tunnel PBACarle Place Teachers AssociationCary ChevatCary Kane LLPCatherine Beltz-FoleyCatherine McVay HughesCatherine NolanCatherine StantonCBNS, Queens CollegeCentral Islip Teachers AssociationCharlene ObernauerChris LathamChristine ProctorCivil Service Bar AssociationClaudia Shacter-DechabertConsolidated Color PressConsulate of Ecuador in New YorkCouncil of School Supervisors and AdministrationsCSEA Local 1000CSEA Local 830

CUNY School of Public HealthCWA District 1CWA District 1CWA Local 1104CWA Local 1180CWA Local 14170Cynthia MayDaniel SnyderDave MichaelsDavid BurdDavid KottlechuckDavid NewmanDC 1701DC 37 Retirees AssociationDC 37, AFSCMEDC 37, Local 1320DC 37, Local 1455DC 37, Local 1482DC 37, Local 1930DC 37, Local 1931DC 37, Local 372DC 37, Local 375DC 37, Local 768DC 37, Local 924Deborah BerkowitzDee Dowling

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Dennis ConnorsDennis EveretteDiane SteinDominic TuminaroDonald MilioneDonna BowmanDorion FuchsDwan WilliamsEarl PhillipsEast Williston Teachers AssociationEckardt JohanningEdgar RomanoEdward OlmstedEdward RappaortEdward SnowEileen DowlingEileen MullerElizabeth Inglis SimmonsElizabeth KelleherEllen Peterson-LewisEmpire Blue Cross Blue ShieldEno AwotoyeErin McCabeErnesto MattaceEsmeralda SimmonsEster AronovaEugene HamondFaculty Association of Suffolk CountyFine, Olin, and AndermanFloral Park-Bellerose District of TeachersFranklin DenantoFranklin MirerFranklin SiegelFrederick WetzelFreeport Food Service/Security Unit Local 1000

Fusco, Brandenstein, and Rada P.C.Gary SchoichetGerald MarkowitzGermain HarndenGeroge DummittGlen Cove Teachers AssociationGreat Neck Teachers AssociationGrey and Grey, LLPGuillermina MejiaHalf Hollow Hills Teachers AssociationHealthplexHerricks Teachers AssociationHoward RonbomHuntington Hospital Nurses AssociationIAFF, Uniformed Firefighters Association, Local 94Ian JordanIATSE Local 751IATSE Local 764IATSE Local 829IATSE, Local 1IATSE, Local 52IBEW Local 1212IBEW Local 25IBEW Local 3IBEW Local 503IBEW Local 589IBT Local 808IBT, Local 237IBT, Local 804IBT, Local 808IBT, Local 814International Brotherhood of Firemen and OilersInternational Union of Bricklayers and Allied CraftInternational Union of Elevator Construction WorkersIrving Lee

IUOE Local 14-14BIUOE Local 891IUOE Local 94, 94A, 94BJacqueline MolineJames ContiJames ConwayJames GardnerJames NoheJared GlugethJay HerzmarkJean GrassmanJean Turner-KellyJean WeinerJeanne BlombergJeanne MirerJeanne StellmanJeff HymanJemma HansonJennifer FaucherJoan GreenbaumJoan ReibmanJoel FredericsonJoel RubinJoel ShufroJohn CallenJohn DousmanisJohn GentileJohn GiovencoJohn MerlinoJohn MorawetzJohn PrinceJohn Stobo IIJohn Van RaalteJohn ZivJon Bloom

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Jonathan RosenJonathan VandenburghJordan ZieglerJose MattaJoseph DorismondJoseph RomanoJoshua BarnettJulia GetzelJulienne VerdiKatherine MawsonKendell BovellKennedy, Jennik and Murray, P.C.Kevin WalshKimberly FlynnKings Point PBALaborers and Employers Cooperation and Education TrustLaura HuizarLaura KennyLaura MinerLaura SchneiderLaw Offices of Joseph A. RomanoLawrence McNeilLee ClarkeLes LeopoldLiam LynchLinda AlerdingLinda ObernauerLisa BaumLong Island Federation of LaborLori PandolfoLuke O’BrienManhasset Educators AssociationMarc WilkenfeldMargit Kaminsky

Mark CatlinMark GoldbergMark StanelyMarsh LoveMatthew LondonMaureen La MarMax NeubergerMaya PintoMDB, Inc.Merrick Faculty AssociationMetal Latherers Local 46Meyer, Suozzi, English & KleinMichael CotterMichael GreenMichael KellyMichael MargolisMichael McCannMichael NeubauerMichelle ParkerMicki Siegel de HernandezMiddle Country Teachers AssociationMilan RadaMineola Teachers AssociationMinKwon Center for Community ActionMiriam BluestoneMonona RossolNABET-CWA Local 16Nancy StearnsNassau BOCES Central Council of TeachersNassau County PBANational Institute of Environmental Health SciencesNational Institute of Occupational Safety and HealthNational Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Center for Disease ControlNCCFT

New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials Worker Training Center, WTP Cooperative Agreement AwardeeNew York City Central Labor CouncilNew York City Local 246New York Community TrustNew York State AFL CIONew York State Assembly – Local Assistance for NY MetropolitanNew York State Department of Labor, Hazard Abatement Board, OSHTEPNew York State Iron Workers District Council New York State Laborers Employer Health and Safety TrustNew York State Nurses AssociationNew York State Public Employees FederationNew York State Senate – Local Assistance for Long IslandNew York State Trial Lawyers AssociationNew York State United TeachersNicholas LaMorteNontraditional Employment for WomenNorman DanzigNorth Rockland Teachers AssociationNorth Shore Occupational and Environmental Medicine of Long Island NY Newspaper Printing Pressman, Local 2NYC Department of Health and Mental HygieneOborne AssociationOccupational Safety and Health AdministrationOPEIU Local 153Organization of Staff AnalystsOrlando RiveraPasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP

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Pat LeonettiPatchogue-Medford Congress of TeachersPatricia WincklerPaul DebiasePaul LansbergisPaul SteinPhilip LandriganPhilip WeissPitta & Giblin LLPPlainview-Old Bethpage Congress of TeachersPort Jefferson Station Teachers AssociationPort Washington Teachers AssociationProfessional Staff CongressPublic Welfare FoundationRachel LidovRalph AviglianoRandi WeingartenRebecca VilkomersonRetail Workers Department Store UnionRichard BrandensteinRichard FitzsimmonsRichard GottfriedRichard LevyRobert AmbarasRobert GreyRobert ScoreRobert SpencerRoberto LucchiniRobin GillespieRockville Centre Teachers AssociationRonald HuttieRoseann TebayRoslyn Teachers AssociationRuth McCollRWDSU Local 3

RWDSU/UFCW Local 338Sara FuscoSEIU Local 300Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health at Mt. SinaiShawn BobbSherman, Federman, Sambur, McIntyre, LLPSMART Local 137Southern Westchester BOCES TeachersSSEU, Local 371Stacey MoriatesStephen RechnerSteve MooserSteven MarkowitzStuart HallSuffolk County Association of Municipal EmployeesSusan KlitzmanSusan McQuadeSusan O’BrienSusan ZuckerSustainable South BronxTeachers Association of LindenhurstTerry MilesTerry TroiaThomas McNallyThree Village Teachers AssociationTim LebarronTolle GrahamTom CarranoTony StrakaTroy RosascoTWU, Local 100UAW Region 9AUAW, Local 2110UCATS Local 3882UFCW, Local 2013

UFCW, Local 342Uniformed Fire Alarm Dispatchers Benevolent AssociationUniformed Fire Officers, IAFFUniformed Sanitationmen’s Association Local 831Uniondale Teachers AssociationUNITE HERE, Local 25United College Employees of FITUnited Federation of TeachersUnited Teachers of Island treesUnited Teachers of NorthportUnited Teachers of SeafordUnited University ProfessionalsUsula LeveltUSW, District 4USW, Local 9265Utility Workers Union of America, Local 1-2Valentin ColonValmore HoltVanessa MertoVeronica FoleyVictor FuscoVictor PasternackVincent RossilloVivian KaufmannWayne MackeyWayne OuttenWendy HordWest Hempstead Educators AssociationWilliam Floyd United TeachersWilliam HenningWilliam HigginsWTC Environmental Health CenterWTC Health Program at Stony Brook UniversityYonkers Federation of Teachers

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STAFFCharlene Obernauer EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

David Newman INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE

Dwan Williams RECEPTIONIST/CLERICAL

Jeanne Blomberg FINANCE DIRECTOR

Karla M Andreu OPERATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Liam Lynch PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Luzdary Giraldo SAFETY AND HEALTH SPECIALIST

Max Neuberger SAFETY AND HEALTH SPECIALIST

Mónica Novoa COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Nadia Marín-Molina SAFETY AND HEALTH SPECIALIST

Susan McQuade SAFETY AND HEALTH SPECIALIST II

Teodoro Talbot SAFETY AND HEALTH SPECIALIST

BOARDLee Clarke CHAIRPERSON

Wendy Hard VICE-CHAIRPERSON

Stephen Mooser VICE-CHAIRPERSON

Robert Grey TREASURER

Jean Grassman ORGANIZATIONAL SECRETARY

Diane Stein AT-LARGE MEMBER

Earl Phillips AT-LARGE MEMBER

Eno Awotoye AT-LARGE MEMBER

Fred Wren LONG ISLAND REGION

Guille Mejía AT-LARGE MEMBER

Janet Foley AT-LARGE MEMBER

Jemma Hanson AT-LARGE MEMBER

Larry Cary LEGAL COUNSEL

Lawrence McNeil AT-LARGE MEMBER

Michelle Parker LOWER HUDSON REGION

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