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Guest Speaker:
Peg Seminario
Peg Seminario served as the long-time director of occupational safety and health for the AFL-CIO from 1990 until her retirement in 2019. She is a nationally recognized occupational safety and health leader and expert with extensive experience in safety and health policy, regulation, and legislation.
She worked for the AFL-CIO since 1977, and led the federation’s efforts to seek improved safety and health protections for workers, participating in dozens of rule makings before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and organizing broad-based campaigns on the right to know about chemical hazards and ergonomic protections. She was one of the leaders in labor’s efforts to enact the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to provide health care and compensation to responders sick from exposures at the World Trade Center. Seminario was the AFL-CIO’s lead organizer of Workers Memorial Day, observed annually on April 28, to remember workers killed, injured and diseased on the job and to highlight the need for improved job safety protections.
In her retirement, Peg has continued to fight for safe jobs, assisting with labor’s efforts to protect workers from COVID-19, serving on the Board of 9/11 Health Watch, working with the COSH advisors to provide support and assistance to the COSH movement and with the OHIP program to mentor new safety and health activists.
In this weekly series, we will hear from and talk with public health experts, government officials, medical personnel, front-line workers and worker representatives about the latest developments to protect workers from COVID-19.
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