Ground Broken for Nat'l Workers Memorial

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
National labor leaders symbolically broke ground for a workers memorial at the National Labor College (NLC) on Workers Memorial Day, Monday, April 28th. The memorial will be located in the center of the campus and will feature a plaza of bricks surrounded by granite benches and pavers. Supporters will sponsor the bricks, pavers and benches with the names of workers who have lost their lives on the job. "This will be the only place in America where workers from all industries, all crafts, all walks of life who are killed on the job are memorialized,” said Cecil Roberts at the event, which was moved indoors due to Monday’s downpours. Roberts is president of the United Mine Workers and chair of the AFL-CIO committee on health and safety. “We build this memorial to honor and remember them, and to remind us of the work that still remains to be done to make America's workplaces as safe and healthy as possible.”