Labor On The Move: Obama Names Two Union Specialists To Job Safety Panel

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Democratic President Barack Obama named two union job safety and health specialists to a Labor Department committee on workplace safety. The unionists on the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health are Peg Seminario (r), longtime director of the AFL-CIO's Occupational Safety and Health Department, and Bill Borwegen, safety and health director for the Service Employees.  They will serve 2-year terms. "NACOSH has advised the Secretaries of Labor, and Health and Human Services for nearly 40 years on worker safety issues such as Latino outreach, hazard communication, the whistleblower program, and overall occupational safety and health programs and policies," an administration statement said. - Press Associates