New York's revived 9/11 Worker Protection Task Force met for the first time in February, but representatives for sanitation and EMS workers, hundreds of whom have died of World Trade Center-related illnesses, were not invited to participate. The panel’s first meeting of the year on Feb. 18 included representatives from several 9/11 survivor advocacy organizations, the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, the Police Benevolent Association, the Transport Workers Union and representatives from the city and state Comptrollers.
But Dennis Schock, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association that represents employees in the city’s Department of Sanitation, said that the first he heard of the panel’s existence was when a reporter from The Chief called him for comment this week.
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