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To: Omayra Rivera, Clerk Typist/Bilingual, Fiscal Unit, Floor 9
From: David H. Weiner, President, CWA Local 1081
Date: April 28, 2008
Re: 160th CWA Local 1081 E-mail Trivia Contest Winner

Congratulations, you are last week's CWA Local 1081 Trivia Contest winner. Please contact CWA Local 1081 Secretary Treasurer Vera Winns at (973) 623-1081, or preferably by E-mail at vwinns@oel.state.nj.us, to collect your $50.00 prize.

You were the first to correctly answer all of the following questions:

The unions of the AFL-CIO remember these workers on which date in April of each year, and call the day what?
Answer: April 28, Workers Memorial Day.

The first such day was observed in which year?
Answer: 1989.

Why was April 28th chosen for this day?
Answer: Because it is the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the day of a similar remembrance in Canada.

Trade unionists around the world now mark April 28 as what?
Answer: An International Day of Mourning.