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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1986 Sept DOC PAINT082 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal Pies % Es Ip is aa world will DEFENDANT'SDEFENDANT'S case specific- EXHIBIT EXHIBIT LEGAL STATE UCC - . On the cover In celebration of Labor Day the tools used by * IBPAT membersin the course of their daily labor are featured on our cover The verse is from The Present Crisis by American _ Poet James Russell Lowell 1819-1891 NEWS AND FEATURES , ' 4-7 Special Section on Labor Day Victims 8 IBPAT Wins New Help for New York Asbestos 10 BCTD Fights Toyota Tax Break | DEPARTMENTS _ a Inside Front Cover 11 12 16 19 Inside Back Cover _ From the General - President Labor Beat Local and District News Sports and Recreation- aa Financial Report ; The GeneralSecretary Treasurer Reports INTERESTS OF DEVOTED TO THE TRADE - RESIDENTIAL e COMMERCIAL - INDUSTRIAL @ SIGN @ PICTORIAL @ COACH @ AUTOMOBILE 'AIRCRAFT e MACHINERY RAILWAY EQUIPMENT e SHIP SCENIC PAINTING DECORATING # PAPERHANGING WALL COVERING @ DECORATIVE AND . SOFT , ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK GLAZING @ CARPET e LINOLEUM e : TILEPAINT AND VARNISH MAKING |: : BRUSH MAKERS AND TO THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT IN GENERAL |: ' Any memberor subordinate body other : . publishing programs souvenirs or other - documents of any descriptionmust notother designate them as The Official Journal of . InternationalBrotherBod rotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades Journal either upon theand publication itself or their advertising ' stationery WILLIAM A. DUVAL . General President . 1750 New York Avenue N.W.Washington D.C. 20006 A. L. MONROE General Treasurer + 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C.D.C. 20006 General VicePresidents oe SNIEGOWSKI * 'BERNARD 1stDistrict ' Boulevard ere MONROE 1750 New York Ave. N.W. 2nd District D.C. changed its workers to allow more because they did not file their claims within statute of limitations ' UNFAIR STATUTE CHANGED The old statute of limitations said ~ that a person must file for compen- s- ation within three years of ex- posure a toxic substance But many diseases like asbestosis take -: 10 or 20 years after first exposure |. ~ todevelop So thousands of New ._ York workers with diseases caused - by work with asbestos up to 30 _ - years were ineligible for com- . pensation benefits = The revisiothneNew York .: Workers Compensation law gives . . every new claimant three years from time the disease is -- diagnosed to file for compensation asbestos | have asbestos It includes a grandfather them part by workers disease have only one year * against to | As of also __ clause to allow one year file for part the com- |. their claims pany's bankruptcy fund was : previcompensation poreuvisoulslyy ineligible for | created to plan a provide ..ONE YEAR DEADLINE | awards eligible workers ...> ./ ocfomlpimeintsaatitoinosn under the old+ " sta| tute for suffer- |. NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT AT asbestos related ELIGIBILITY we ing from diseases urges IB- PAT International | the to | any in MANVILLE ELIGIBILITY ELIGIBILITY FOR ~-. But under plan a worker had PA member the state of New compensation be eligible for under | PA who is currently suffering MANVILLE SETTLEMENT MANVILLE the | from an asbestos state's compensation . The change in the New York York law before they could share in the . disease related exposure . or Johns- | | to State Workers Compensation law Manville with a history of exposure ment | immediately contact also makes : exposed settlement require- asbestos to ment made a qualified occupational physician ., workers eligible to share in the workers many : York and | - Manville settlement if they | that rightifnuellliygiwbelerefor setdtuleements | a competent compensation attorney | asbestos . develop disease their The to make application for benefits if in the major Manville a change New York State eligible before the one year U.S. sup- Workers Compensation statute |! asbestos plier of and asbestos pro- |. statute of deadline passes Now General phasizes IBPAT President William A. Duval especially if you| were previously denied a compensa tion claim for asbestos related disease due to the New York State Workers Compensation statute of limitations =... You only have one year from July 24 1986 to make your claim If you presently suffer from an asbestos related disease and fail to make a claim in this one yeargrace period then the chance to be com- pensated for your disease is pro- bably lost forever . IB- _. The International hopes that IB- PAT members who are unable to find competent compensation at- madearrangements to help members contact compensation special ists to handle member needs not Second if your local union does not have access to qualified occupa- tional physicians or competent com- pensation attorneys then write to the International o General Presi- dent William A. Duval An effort will made to locate attorneys and , physicians for you ' We can make no guarantees and the choice of attorneys and physicians is completely up to you But if we can help our members to get compensation that is rightfully due that's what we want to do torneys or qualified occupational WIN physicians will not just give up A FOR ALL NY WORKERS fighting for what is their just due IBPAT Locals and Councils in According to General President New York have lobbied hard over | your local Duval two things be done * the past three years to improve _. "First : check - workers compensation in the state . union business representative They have lobbied state represen- before giving up on compensation tatives and senators and have con- Many IBPAT Locals have already . ducted letter writing and - fact- cracks noted Duval _ on articles published in various New York newspapers | These pro- business forces were ready sacrifice the welfare lives lot of our members to hold compensation expenses