(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - A Worker dies from corporate negligence every 104 minutes: The suppliers of auto parts for Hyundai and Kia cars; The Subway Restaurant Chain; The Nation’s largest Homebuilder, which let Donald Trump’s vicious and violent ICE Agents raid its job sites; and a Snack Food Company that puts Migrants’ children into hazardous factory jobs.

“Workers are still being poisoned, injured, exploited and killed on the job. When employers say ‘the system is working,’ we have to ask: ‘Working for who?,’” says Jessica Martinez, the Executive Director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), which released its annual Dirty Dozen report on the worst job safety and health violators nominated by its local councils and allies, and why those corporate bad actors made the list - though they’re not alone. 

The Auto Parts Firm, Subway, the Snack Food Firm and the Homebuilder who let ICE Agents raid its job sites - especially during Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities - are all in the report, which doesn’t even include the worst of the worst: Amazon. 

The monster Retailer and Warehouse Firm, which employs one-third of all U.S. Warehouse Workers - but accounts for almost half of the workplace injuries in that industry, had such a bad job safety record for so long that NACOSH put it last year into a special category of permanent violators.

Amazon and its multi-billionaire majority owner, Jeff Bezos, a Trump pal, is also virulently Anti-Union.

Amazon’s “absence” gave NACOSH and its allies a chance to spotlight other firms who put profits before people and shirk job safety measures, including warnings and fines from the Federal and State Occupational Safety and Health Administrations (OSHAs).

The fines, Martinez says, are declining.

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