ACTION: WC BILL NY TO INCREASE WAGE

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Please forward to all your NY contacts to call their representatives....we need to get this abomination on the injured worker passed but this must include grandfathering in all prior injured workers not just the ones injured after the change occurs, which needs to be included in this bill. Please add this to your comments to your representatives. Some injured workers even previously getting large salaries are still being paid pre 1991 maximums of $150.00 and $350/wk. and were never increased in 1991 when the wage was changed to $400 because the laws stated only newly injured. Increases have not included already injured.

The 911 chemically injured en masse are the ones that have pushed to get this created and shined the light on the cockaroaches abusing a legitimately injured worker for which I can personally attest. It took this large amount of group injured, being simultaneously abused by this current inhumane system, having to deal with the dilatory tactics of The State Insurance Fund and others lies and attorney betrayal within this system, to get legislators to finally believe what was going on to the individual injured worker caught in a system that works to save state monies no matter what your injuries are. Delaying cases to increase attorney recovery and save outlay. As Pataki has instructed all handling WC cases. "they are all to be treated as crooks".

This was told to me by a very prominent attorney within the board.

Hearings are not allowed to be tape recorded and all that goes on within the hearing rooms is not put on stenographic record. Only those the oppoisiton attorneys and the judge decide. Most of your testimony is eliminated from record. I put a tape recorder on the table at the start of my last hearing and everyone freaked out. All the hearings should be videotaped.

Those totally and permanently injured who will need a lifetime of medical care due to their injuries, must be compensated properly for their years of dedicated service and commitment to others in their care.

Chemical injury is a very difficult injury to recover from, most do not and suffer unbearably for the rest of their lives. Once chemically hypersensitized aand chemically damaged, reactions occur continously in their everyday lives until finally they are societally isolated and develope cancers and other chemical malfunctions systemically, which include brain damage, organ malfucntions, permanent lung damage, etc...

Most workers injured in 911 have had their lives shortened by 20 years or more. This is a difficult injury to treat as many of you know and even more difficult to reverse. In addition, many treatments that will assist them in getting better will not be within the old standards of medically approved protocols which requires special court order which very rarely gets approval. Hence, the injured worker will have to use their own additional money to find appropriate treatment.

Please do your part to get this bill edited and approved as soon as possible.

Warmest Regards,

Donna M. REILLY

Chemically injured NY 1998

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NYC Central Labor Council Resolution in support of Passage of an Increase in Workers’ Compensation Benefits

 

March 18, 2004

 

http://www.nycclc.org/news_views/press/Resolutions.asp

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WHEREAS: Workers’ Compensation is the exclusive remedy for wage replacement and related medical costs for workers injured or made ill on the job; and

 

WHEREAS: The maximum Workers’ Compensation wage replacement level has not increased since 1991; and

 

WHEREAS: Benefit levels in New York State are currently 50-100% lower than surrounding states; and

 

WHEREAS: The current maximum of $400 per week compared to the average weekly wage in New York is the lowest parentage of any jurisdiction in the United States; and

 

WHEREAS: A9736 introduced by Assemblywoman and S6135 introduced by Senator Guy Valella would increase the maximum benefits payable under workers’ Compensation in increments of $75, reaching a level equal to two-thirds of the state average weekly wage in December, 2006; and

 

WHEREAS: A9736/S6135 would establish a medical trust so that workers will not have to wait months or years to get much needed diagnostic tests or treatment; and

 

WHEREAS: A9736/S6135 includes other provisions to expedite the delivery of benefits to qualified workers; Now, THEREFORE, BE IT

 

RESOLVED: That the New York City Central Labor Council joins with our New York State AFL-CIO in calling upon the State Senate and Assembly to pass an increase in Workers’ Compensation benefits; and, BE IT FURTHER

 

RESOLVED: That the New York City Central Labor Council urges the timely passage of A9736 and S6135 in the 2004 legislative session; and BE IT FINALLY

 

RESOLVED: That the New York City Central Labor Council and New York State AFL-CIO urge all its affiliates and their members to contact their State legislator to support and vote for passage of these bills.

 

(Approved without dissent by NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, at the March 18, 2004 Executive Board Meeting.

 

 

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