Midstate Council for Occupational Safety and Health

Workplace safety & health training & advocacy in New York’s Southern Tier and Finger Lakes Regions: Seneca, Cayuga Counties, Tompkins, Cortland, Schuyler, Tioga, Broome and Chemung Counties.

OUR MISSION & WORK
For more than 25 years, MCOSH (Midstate Council on Occupational Safety and Health) has provided preventative training and critical services to workers in all industries. Our mission is rooted in the belief all workers have the right to a safe, just and equitable workplace. In recent years, our work has become focused upon social justice in the workplace. Even as Southern states are showing their contempt for central American migrants, we have focused upon support and organizing among essential migrant farm and restaurant workers in the New York mid-state region, with much of our work taking place in Tompkins County. Co-Director Carlos Gutierrez has been partnering with the United Food & Commercial Workers union to organize Latinx workers, and he has been providing critical services like transportation to health clinics, translation between farmers and farm workers, assisting undocumented workers to apply for driver’s licenses, helping workers initiate the workers’ compensation process, and connecting workers with trusted medical providers. We have also for several years facilitated Teens Lead @ Work, a youth workplace leadership development program for Tomkins County youth.