June 9th, 2010
New York Healthy Workplace Bill must wait for 2011
Read the story of the bill’s fate at the end of the 2009-10 legislative session in the New York State Legislature.
Tags: A05414B, Healthy Workplace Bill, NY Assembly Labor Committee, NYHWA, S1823B, Susan John
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Yesterday I called my Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton’s legislative aide in Albany who told me that she believed the Committee WAS going to vote on it before June 21, that it was held for future vote. It is extremely disappointing to hear that is not so. I’ve become committed to this issue in the last couple of months; seems like it is time to work harder.
[...] June 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment As it turns out, the Assembly Labor Committee did not put A5414, The Healthy Workplace Bill, aside for further consideration: they threw it in the wastebasket, letting down New York’s workers and the NYS Senate. I am terribly disappointed that Labor Chair Susan John was not able to show the necessary leadership on this issue. You can read more at the Workplace Bullying Institute’s blog. [...]
It is so sad that we can’t make any progress in this country. With some of the people who are getting elected now it will only get worse. Our complacency is going to cost us big in the future. The uneducated citizens of our country do not realize how much they are hurting the population as a whole. Education is a responsibility, without it people can’t think for themselves and vote for decent candidates.