[Sosfbay-discuss] Is Tesla Nuts?

[alexcathy at aol.com]

 Wow!  Thanks for posting this.  I think this is a powerful Green Party issue.  

I am forwarding it to the South San Francisco Bay Green Party List because Tesla also has a facility in San Jose. 

 
Alex Walker 
Los Angeles Greens 

 


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Subject: [Fulcrumsofchange] Is Tesla Nuts?
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:31:12 -0800
From: Steve Zeltzer <lvpsf at igc.org>
To: Fulcrums of Pacifica <fulcrumsofchange at pacificana.org>

Is Tesla Nuts?

The "green" electric car auto company Tesla is planning to build a non-
union auto plant at the Downey Toxic dump site with $465 million of US
Department of energy funds. The California Coalition For Workers
Memorial Day is demanding that no US government funds go to a non-
union auto maker to build a "green plant" at the site owned by crooked
toxic Downey developer Stuart Lichter. Lichter recently lost a SLAPP
suit against injured workers and injured worker advocates who had gone
public about the injuries of workers at the site.
Is Tesla Nuts?

Stop the Tesla Non-union Auto Plant at Downey and The Cover-up Of The
Downey Toxic Dump Site’s Injured Workers

Defend Injured Biotech Worker David Bell and Call For Criminal Action
Against Agraquest owner Pam Marrone!

California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day Statement

http://www.workersmemorialday.org

12/2/2009



In the midst of this deep economic crisis, crooked toxic site
propterty developers are developing long time military and commercial
radioactive and toxic dumps without properly cleaning them up. One of
the most deadly is in Downey, California where Stuart Lichter owned
Downey Studios and Dreamworks workers from IATSE, LIUNA, were sickened
by the failure to properly clean it up. Downey developer Stuart
Lichter has even sued injured workers to shut them up but his SLAPP
suit was recently dismissed with prejudice by an LA judge.
Additionally the Kaiser Hospital chain has built a $700 million
hospital complex on this same toxic dump site.

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/02/business/fi-ct-downey2

The latest news is that the non-union Tesla Motors may build an
“green” electric car assembly plant at the toxic site with a US
government DOE energy efficiency loan of $465 million. Their cars will
be sold for $115, 000 each to the rich.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla25-2009nov25,0,3683681.story

Is this crazy or what? We are using US Federal funds to build a non-
union auto plant at a toxic dump site. At the same time, the Toyota
corporation is closing a unionized modern automobile plant in Fremont,
Califronia that produces some of the most efficient and
environmentally improved cars in the country because it is a union
plant.

The injured Downey workers are asking you to support:

*No Federal, State or Local funding for building new businesses on a
dangerous toxic dump site where workers are still getting sick. Call
your State and Congressional representative to demand the end of the
use of Federal funds for Tesla at Downey.

*An immediate NIOSH epidemiological study on all workers and community
people who have been on the site or near the Downey site.

*Free medical care and compensation for all Downey workers and members
of the community sickened by these sites

*Congressional Hearings on the privatization of Superfund US/Military
sites into "Brownfield" sites including testimony from injured workers
and people in the Downey community who have been made ill by this site.

*Report from all insurance companies in the United States on their
workers compensation and personal insurance claims that have been made
by workers and community people at toxic dump sites, the acceptance or
rejection of these claims and how many of there workers and people in
the community are now having their healthcare costs being paid for by
SSI or other US government agencies.

*Criminal prosecution of all insurance companies and employers who
have shifted healthcare costs from the Brownfield sites to Local,
State and the Federal government.*The elimination of all privatized
Brownfield sites nationally and the clean-up by union labor of the
sites with community-labor oversight on this clean-up.



We are also asking you support the case of injured biotech Davis
Agraquest worker David Bell. The Agraquest plant in Davis was
genetically engineering pesticides without proper health and safety
protection and when worker David Bell was sickened the owner Pam
Marrone and the insurance company Liberty Mutual denied the workplace
injuries and committed criminal fraud by forcing SSI and the US
government to pay for David Bell’s healthcare costs.

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=870890

The lack of proper Federal regulation of biotech and nanotech
industries and the systemic destruction of CA-OSHA with the
elimination of nearly all the doctors in California is a national
issue that needs to be addressed by organized labor and the US
Congress. We also ask you to support the call for a criminal
investigation by CA Attorney General Jerry Brown and US attorney
general Eric Holder of this Federal and state fraud and the systemic
cost shifting by employers and the insurance industry on the Federal
government and government agencies. The control by the insurance
industry of workers compensation and all healthcare must be eliminated
if American’s health & safety as well as healthcare are going to be
protected.

California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day

http://www.workersmemorialday.org



 
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