AFL-CIO Endorses Safety Agenda

Citing statistics showing that transportation workers are three times more likely to be killed or injured on the job as other industries, the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO adopted a tough new safety agenda at the winter meeting of the labor federation’s Executive Board in Miami.

TTD President Sonny Hall, who also heads the Transport Workers Union, said a third of the 6,112 men and women who died on the job in 1996 were employed in transportation-related industries. He called the numbers “horrifying.”

Noting a recent report from the Transportation Department’s Inspector General that said too few trucks were being inspected along the U.S.-Mexico border, Hall said the Clinton administration should continue to delay implementation of the trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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