Labor Quiz: Working Themselves to Death
Monday, June 10, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Nearly 5,000 workers die as a result of workplace accidents every year. How many
die every year as a result of cancers and other illnesses brought about by their
work? Click here and you
could be next week's winner of a labor music CD!
Last Week's Quiz: The
“Poor Boy” sandwich got its name when a sandwich shop owner in New Orleans,
during a streetcar strike in the city, told his staff to give a free sandwich to
any striking “poor boy” who asked for one. Congrats to Barbara
Cannady-Masimini of AFGE Local 2725, Washington, D.C., this week's quiz (and
labor music CD) winner!