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Unions Honor the Dead, Take Added Steps to Improve On-the-Job Safety

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 5/2/18

To commemorate Workers Memorial Day April 27, dozens of elected officials, workers and city labor leaders gathered on the steps of City Hall to read aloud the names of 40 fellow New Yorkers killed on the job over the preceding year.

The annual service, sponsored by the AFL-CIO New York City Central Labor Council and the New York Committee for Occupational Health, is meant to honor the dead but also to recommit to improving workplace and occupational safety.

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