...salaries. The proposal "has the ability to kill hundreds of small businesses across our country." On the other side, Peg Seminario, health and safety director for the AFL-CIO, said repetitive stress is "the biggest safety and health problem...

...worst in the nation was in 2001. The good news is that the rate of work-related deaths is declining in Alaska, said Peg Seminario, director of occupational safety and health for the AFL-CIO in Washington D.C. In 2006, Alaska had 45 workplace...