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(18,470 posts) Sat Apr 29, 2017, 10:32 AM Apr 2017

Dubuque labor union remembers workers killed on the job

Local labor unions took part in the National Worker's Memorial the other day;

As part of National Worker’s Memorial the I.B.E.W Local 704 in Dubuque is remembering people who've died or were injured while working.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 34 workers were killed in Iowa in 2016. The bureau says many more suffered from occupational diseases.

But members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers say due to federal budget cuts there are now only two OSHA inspectors for the entire state of Iowa.

"If they took every job site in the state of Iowa and wanted to visit it, with the current staff they have, it would take them 170 years," said I.B.E.W Local 704 manager Tom Townsend.

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