Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says even after decades of enforcement, activism and Union campaigning, “Workers are still paying the price every day” in deaths and injuries on the job “for corporate greed.”  Using a copy of the National Labor Federation’s 33rd annual report:  Death on the Job: A Toll of Neglect, Shuler told a U.S. Labor Department audience in Washington, D.C. last week that the job of campaigning to cut the toll is incomplete.  Workers and their allies must lobby for tougher laws against companies and more enforcement, too, she said.  The National AFL-CIO’s comprehensive report, plus the Dirty Dozen study by the Labor-backed National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, the DOL ceremony, and personal stories from surviving victims or relatives of the dead marked Workers Memorial Week.  The reports are on their websites.

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