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!