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If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta luck.
But if memories were all I sang, I rather drive a truck.  ~~~ Ricky Nelson Garden Party (1972)

Tomorrow (Friday, 10/19/12), the NJ Work Environment Council (WEC) will hold an important forum: Standing Up for Safety, Health and Environmental Protection! Your Right to Act Without Employer Retaliation

Buy your tickets for $75 and make a contribution here – but don’t any of you 47% per centers out there seek a free ride, WEC “can’t afford to subsidize people”. 

Every worker should be able to speak up about workplace hazards – before a coworker is hurt or killed or there is a toxic release to the air and water we all breathe.

But too often management awards workers with prizes or other incentives for not reporting dangers to employees or our communities. And sometimes workers are harassed or fired for speaking up.

At this dynamic Work Environment Council program you’ll learn about: 

•  Your rights to organize and speak out under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health Act, NJ Conscientious Employees Protection Act (CEPA), National Labor Relations Act, and federal environmental protection laws.

•  Action to help ensure that you and coworkers won’t be targeted before you speak out.

•  OSHA’s new policy that management practices to blame workers for accidents or to discourage or penalize reporting of work-related injuries and illnesses can be illegal.

•  Management obligations to report injuries, illnesses, toxic releases, and off-site consequence impacts to government regulators.

This message is brought to you free of charge by – speaking personally – the leader of the NJ Chapter of an organization whose mission is to support and defend whistleblowers, and is written by a real whistleblower who’s been there and done that.

A real NJ DEP whistleblower who guides other DEP whistleblowers.

Who spends time and effort to write about their struggles with corporate giants and DEP retaliation and DEP denial and repression.

And whose work has led to the only pending legislation (S787) to expand NJ’s whistleblower law.

And who has many knots on his head to show for it.

Enjoy –

and don’t mind certain embarrassing un-revoked organizational ties to Gov. Christie’s endorsement by any presenters, avoiding that minefield is obviously more important than history or “subsidies”.

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