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Morning State News Briefs: Racine alderman due back in court

RACINE - A Racine alderman is due back in court October 13th on charges that he tried to strangle a pregnant employee from his tavern, in a dispute over a debit card.

59, Keith Fair made its first appearance in Racine County Circuit Court yesterday on one charge of strangulation and suffocation crime-driving offense and battery and disorderly. A bond of two thousand dollars was set. The woman worked as a bartender at the tavern to call "the place on Sixth Street." She also works as a private detective business in another FAQ.Racine hospital called police after seeing numerous cuts and bruises on the woman last weekend. She told police she was right to take what she thought was his debit card at the beginning last Friday in the tavern - and they argued about it and later started fighting in a car.

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The State Patrol is still investigating a two vehicle accident near Antigo that killed a mother and her little girl. According to authorities, Dettman Rana 21 years died at a hospital in Marshfield, where she flew after the crash.Week-old Paige Zynda Antigo died in a hospital. Authorities said the woman's vehicle collided with one driven by a 16 year old boy Antigo, who was in fair condition at last word in Marshfield. The accident occurred Friday at the intersection of two county councils near the line of Langlade-Marathon County.

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The Army Reserve has confirmed that it is investigating the death of a soldier in Afghanistan Appleton. 25 Garrick Eppinger Junior Sergeant was killed, and he died Sept. 17.Garrick said his family was shot at the Bagram air base, where he worked in an office job as a supply specialist for a team of munitions. Lt. Col. Ernest Gurtowsky said he had no information on how Eppinger dead - but he confirmed that he was shot. Gurtowsky said the investigation would take several months to finish. Eppinger was with the Society of the Reserve 395th Ordnance which is based in Appleton. His funeral took place last Saturday with military honors.

OSHA GOES LOCAL: Austin-based non-profit educates hard-to ...

Workers Defense Project , an Austin-based non-profit organization that empowers low-income workers to achieve fair employment and safe working conditions, has developed a new worker health and safety program with assistance from a 2010 Occupational Safety and Health Administration Susan Harwood grant . 

Austin’s construction workers face high rates of dangerous working conditions, death on the job (every 2.5 days a construction worker dies in Texas), and denial of legal protections. According to 2009 survey data of Austin’s 50,000 construction workers, 61% have less then a middle school education, 64% have received no health and safety training, and 71% are monolingual Spanish speakers. These are truly “hard-to-reach” construction workers, as defined by OSHA.

To educate these workers about safety rights and regulations — a key task to preventing serious injury and death on the job —WDP developed a safety training program called “CEPA,” which features short 30-minute job-site based trainings, a longer 2-4 hour training, 4 safety videos and brochures, and an accompanying 60-page safety manual and a 40-page train-the-trainer/facilitator manual. The training name, CEPA (which carries the multiple meanings of “foundations,” “being authentic,” and “knowing”), is a Spanish acronym for the four topic areas—controlling workplace hazards, electrical safety, protection under OSHA, and fall safety. 

CEPA’s “participatory empowerment approach,” rooted in popular and adult education paradigms, has facilitators and workers share collective knowledge and experience to develop concrete solutions to common safety hazards in construction. During the training, workers not only learn about a broad range of safety topics, participants also practice skits on how to talk with co-workers and employers about safety hazards, and they learn how to organize on the job to promote safer working conditions.

Agustin Salgado, an experienced safety training facilitator at WDP, stated, “the membership-building and organizing component of this safety class is key. Workers learn about the importance of unity and solidarity, and they see how being organized can translate into concrete changes at the workplace and in the community.

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