‘Every worker who died on the job represents another empty seat at a family’s kitchen table,’ AFL-CIO president says
Construction was among the industries with the highest fatality rates in 2021, according to a report from the AFL-CIO.
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More than 5,000 U.S. workers died on the job in 2021, according to new statistics released by the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federation. And the number of fatalities among Black workers was at its highest point in nearly two decades.
In a statement Wednesday after the labor group released its annual “Death on the Job” report, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler said that “every American should be alarmed and outraged by the tragic data unearthed in this report.”
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