PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Armary Perez, Director of Construction Division at Workers' Justice Project
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Armary Perez, representing the Workers' Justice Project, testifies in support of Intro 865, which would create an online database of workplace fatalities in New York City. She emphasizes the importance of this database for monitoring workplace safety, especially for low-wage and immigrant workers in emerging industries like app-based food delivery.
- The Workers' Justice Project trains nearly 1000 low-wage workers annually in construction site safety and connects laborers to job opportunities.
- Perez highlights the increasing safety concerns in private sectors for low-wage and immigrant workers, citing over 30 worker fatalities in app-based food delivery in the past 4 years.
- She argues that the proposed database would help identify hazardous industries and determine necessary steps to prevent future workplace fatalities.
Armary Perez
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So thank you.
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Good morning.
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Sherri Uli, good morning, members of the committee on consumer and workers protection.
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On behalf of workers' justice project, I want to thank you for the opportunity to testify here.
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Of intro 0865.
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My name is Armani Perez.
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I'm I'm the director of the construction division at the work as justice project, and our program dedicated to education and organizing and empowering day laborers in construction in Brooklyn.
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Our goal in Brooklyn and beyond, our goal is to build a culture of state safety and eliminate waste tests and provide pathway for day laborers and low wage workers to secure better wage and create opportunities through our workforce development and toll free federal programs.
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Every years, we train nearly 1000 low wage workers in 40 hours construction site safety training and connect the laborers over 400 jobs opportunities in construction and others.
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And we support more than 200 construction workers in their fight against waste theft across the city.
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We appreciate the New York City Council's funding support through the the labor workforce initiative and the construction site safety initiative.
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Thank you for renewing our grant.
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And we continue to empower and organize nonunionized and lower wage construction workers in this new fiscal year.
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On behalf of workers' justice employer.
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I'm here to testify to support the intro 0865, we would require the commissioner of the consumer and workers' protection to create an online database of work fatalities in New York City.
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The chief medical examiner will report world related deaths, and employers would be required to provide additional informations.
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This is a significant step forward monitoring workplace fatalities identify HR, recognizing unsafe industry practices and developing informed strategies to prevent future workplace fatalities.
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For low wage workers and immigrant workers.
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Earning are living in in New York.
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Private sectors is becoming increasingly unsafe.
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In recent years, emerging industry, like, up base for delivery, have become a month of that lot the the the the delis with over 30 worker fatalities in the past 4 years.
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So as fatalities and injuries rise across the sector in New Year, it's crucial to monitor work related deaths to hold unethical employers on comfortable and ensure that every job is safe and dignify.
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We strongly support intro 0865, and it will be provide valuable data to help identify hazardous industries and determine the necessary step to prevent future workplace.
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Thank you so much for hearing me.
