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Construction Deaths Underscore How Union Standards Make a Difference

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 5/2/16

Seventeen construction workers were killed on the job in New York City in 2015. Just one belonged to a labor union.

For the dozens of advocates, workers and supporters who gathered a block from Times Square on April 28, that number would have been too many even if it weren’t a mere subset of all the work-related deaths in the city last year.

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