Workplace Safety Town Hall Tonight
Tuesday, July 27, 2010(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
“An average of 14 workers die each day in this country because
the current occupational safety and health laws are weak,” says Sara
Markle-Elder, who is organizing tonight’s town
hall meeting on tough new legislation that seeks to strengthen mine and
workplace safety rules. “The Robert C. Byrd Miner Safety and Health Act (H.R.
5663) will be the first update to the Occupational Safety and Health Act since
it passed in 1970,” adds Markle-Elder, “it’s critical that we tell
Congress to pass this bill!” The town hall meeting – which starts at 7P at
the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington – is sponsored by the National
Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, the Northern Virginia Area Labor
Federation, the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO and the Virginia
AFL-CIO. Click
here for details.