If you are a shop steward, union rep, organizer, or trainer who’s looking for tools and tips on how to win safer working conditions for your members, this conference is for you.
The National Conference on Worker Safety and Health #COSHCON19 is an action-packed program that captures the best of what works to win better safety and health conditions in all kinds of workplaces.
The conference is held by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a federation of local and state coalitions of labor unions, health and technical professionals, and others advocating for worker health and safety.
Here’s just some of what you can learn during three days of interactive workshops, panels and presentations, with more than 300 health and safety activists.
How to:
Certificates are awarded for participation in this program to give you the tools to win battles in the strongest worker rights issue we have - the right to a safe job!
“#COSHCON19 is a great opportunity that brings together workers, occupational health and safety experts, unions, worker centers and other activists to learn about and organize ourselves around ongoing and emerging labor health and safety issues,” said AFGE Health and Safety Specialist Milly Rodriguez.
Interested? Here are the details:
What: National Conference on Worker Safety and Health #COSHCON19
When: Dec. 3-5, 2019
Where: Maritime Conference Center, just outside Baltimore, MD #COSHCON19
Click here to register.
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