Workplace Safety Town Hall Tonight

(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.