Union files safety complaint about UC Berkeley custodian's death last month

[alp227]

Source: Bay City News

Union leaders said today that they've filed a complaint with the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health about the death of a custodian at the University of California at Berkeley on April 7.

Leaders of American Federation of State Local and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which represents 22,000 service and patient care technical workers at the 10 UC campuses, said 45-year-old Damon Frick fell from a 20-foot lift at the International House on campus on April 7 and died days later from the injuries he sustained.

In its complaint, the union alleges that UC Berkeley violated the California Health and Safety Act and failed to comply with its own health and safety policies.

Read more: http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_25730780/union-files-safety-complaint-about-uc-berkeley-custodians

[RandySF]

1. When it comes to how UC Berkeley treats its employees

They are FAR from progressive.

[mahina]

2. They paid entry level janitors 10.00/hr in 1979.

I know because I did that job there while in school at UCB. It paid way better than my legal secretary job.

You may be right about that, idk, but we're pushing for that wage 35 years later for workers.

What happened to this man is horrendous and the family is right to sue. Still.