Obama Labor Secretary Says She Still Has “Great Concerns” about Construction-Worker Safety in Texas
Houston Chronicle—September 1st, 2011
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said today that Texas has made progress on construction-worker safety but needs to do more to improve workplace protections amid its recent spurt of job creation.
“I have spent some time out in Texas,” Solis told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, “and there are some great concerns I have with respect to worker protection.”
The Labor Department put more feet on the ground in Texas after noticing that the state had suffered “a large number” of fatalities and injuries among construction workers a couple of years ago, she said. Solis said she held a work-safety summit in Texas in 2010 in light of the statistics.
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