Labor Quiz: Union Busting
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Polling shows that more than half of all working Americans would like to be
represented by a union. What percentage of employers hire consultants to help
them defeat worker efforts to be unionized? Click here and you could be
next week's winner of a labor music CD!
Last Week's Quiz: Nearly
5,000 workers die as a result of workplace accidents every year. How many
die every year as a result of cancers and other illnesses brought about by their
work? Answer: 50,000 Americans die every year—an average of 137 a
day—as a result of cancers and other illnesses brought about by their jobs,
according to the AFL-CIO. - photo courtesy Jason
Perlman/Flickr