Corona Virus Update 4/28

Today is Workers Memorial Day, the day we honor workers killed, injured, or made ill on the job or as a result of exposure on the job. It is SO relevant today during the Corona Virus Pandemic and the lack of, and rationing of, PPE. AFT locals across the country took action today by filing 40 OSHA complaints, including 2 in Connecticut. In this article, Sherri Dayton, president of Backus Nurses is quoted in this article. https://www.thedailybeast.com/osha-complaints-flood-in-from-covid-19-frontline-health-workers

This is a very nice video on Workers Memorial Day done by the CT AFL-CIO, and featuring Shellye Davis and Jan Hochadel of AFT CT. 

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Sister Shellye Davis is co-president of the Hartford PSRP Local, a Divisional VP for AFT CT and eastern CT ALF-CIO Area Labor Fedrration  president With a message for today. 

We are 52 days since our first confirmed case of Covid-19 in Connecticut. 

92,745 have been tested

26,312 have tested positive 

1,732 are currently hospitalized, down 26 today

2089 have died, up 77

These are 2 attachments that may be of help. One is social media help for today’s action and the other is a Covid Objection of Assignment form provided by our AFT/HPAE affiliate in New Jersey. (Email me if you’d like them jbrady@aftc.org)

 Be well,

John