Ebola and Infectious Disease Training for Union and Immigrant Workers at Risk

托尼·马佐奇中心健康与安全培训伙伴关系(TMC)-包括联合钢铁、造纸和林业、橡胶、制造、能源、联合工业和服务业工人国际工会(USW)、美国通信工人(CWA)及其附属工会、空乘协会(AFA-CWA)、劳工研究所(LL)、Make the Road New York(MRNY)和国庆日劳工组织网络(NDLON)及其附属机构-正在申请资金，以开展埃博拉生物安全和传染病应对培训。我们的 合作伙伴关系提议通过就业来培训有感染埃博拉和其他传染病风险的工人。我们代表65,100名医护人员、40,000名航空公司空乘人员、7,500名航空公司机场代理和行李搬运工、10，00名惩教人员、15,000名社会服务人员和75,000名电信工作人员。我们还代表数以千计的移民工人，他们在被指定为埃博拉治疗中心的医院及其周围担任社区卫生工作者、航空公司清洁工、行李搬运工和其他清洁工。 TMC于2014年11月加入WTP应对埃博拉危机的努力，当时它与健康和安全专家Bernard Mizula(MS、CIH、CET、CHS-V、RPIH)签约，为USW代表的医护人员设计和测试意识水平课程。TMC通过2015年5月收到的埃博拉生物安全和传染病应对行政补编培训赠款继续开展这项工作。在这三个月的赠款期间，TMC合作伙伴超出了他们的目标，为培训员提供了1,884个小时的埃博拉意识接触培训，并为143名面临风险的工会和移民工人提供了试点培训。 TMC合作伙伴现在提议用英语和西班牙语为工会和移民工人培训员开展广泛的埃博拉意识水平培训方案。这些培训员将对医护人员、航空公司空乘人员、航空公司机场代理、行李搬运工、社区卫生人员、航空公司清洁工和其他从事清洁行业的工人进行试点埃博拉意识水平培训。在这笔赠款的第一年，我们计划向1,602名工作人员提供11,440个小时的埃博拉/传染病培训。这些工作人员将增加可供在暴发期间部署的训练员队伍，无论何时何地都需要培训。 据我们所知，这项拟议的计划将在该国部署最大的西班牙语培训能力，为高危移民人口进行埃博拉/传染病培训。

The Tony Mazzocchi Center health and safety training partnership (TMC) -which includes the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW), the Communications Workers of America (CWA),and an affiliate union, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), the Labor Institute (Ll), Make the Road New York (MRNY) and the National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) and its affiliates - is applying for funds to conduct Ebola Biosafety and Infectious Disease Response Training. Our partnership proposes to train workers who are at risk of exposure to Ebola and other infectious diseases through their employment. We represent 65,100 healthcare workers, 40,000 airline flight attendants, and 7,500 airline airport agents and baggage handlers, 10,00 corrections workers, 15,000 social service workers, and 75,000 telecommunications workers. We also represent thousands of immigrant workers who are employed as community health workers, airline cleaners, baggage handlers and other cleaners in and around hospitals that have been designated as Ebola treatment centers. The TMC joined the WTP effort to respond to the Ebola crisis in November, 2014, when it contracted with health and safety expert, Bernard Mizula (MS, CIH, CET, CHS-V, RPIH) to design and test an awareness level course for USW-represented health care workers. The TMC continued this work through the Administrative Supplement for Ebola Biosafety and Infectious Disease Response Training grant received in May 2015. During that three-month grant, the TMC partners exceeded their goals by providing 1,884 contact hours of Ebola Awareness Level training for trainers and pilot training for a total of 143 at-risk union and immigrant workers. The TMC partners now propose to conduct extensive Ebola awareness level train-the-trainer programs for union and immigrant worker trainers in English and Spanish. These trainers, in turn, will conduct pilot Ebola awareness level training for healthcare workers, airline flight attendants, airline airport agents, baggage handlers, community health workers, airline cleaners and other workers engaged in the cleaning industries. In the first year of this grant we propose to reach 1,602 workers with 11,440 contact hours of Ebola/infectious disease training. These workers will add to the pool of trainers available to be deployed during outbreaks wherever and whenever training is needed. To the best of our knowledge this proposed program will field the largest Spanish-language training capacity in the country to conduct Ebola/infectious disease training for at-risk immigrant populations.