United Steelworkers (USW)
Michael J. Wright, Director of Health, Safety, and Environment
USW is a union representing 850,000 workers in North America, including the majority of unionized metal and nonmetal miners in the United States and Canada. Michael J. Wright. is a former member of the Department of Labor’s National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, and a current member of NIOSH’s Mine Health Reseaarch Advisory Committee. The following is from July 26, 2007, testimony before the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee on pending mine safety legislation. Most of the MINER Act is focused on underground coal mines. That is appropriate, given the terrible death toll…
