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PEOPLE
Oregon AFSCME hires
successor to executive
director Ken Allen
Oregon AFSCME Council 75
has named San Francisco union
leader Michael Seville to re-
place its longtime executive di-
rector Ken Allen, who is retiring
at the end of July.
Seville currently is research
director at Local 21 of the Inter-
national Federation of Profes-
sional and Technical Engineers
(IFPTE) — a 10,000-member
public sector union representing
employees at the City and
County of San Francisco and
...Workplace
deaths increase
other local
governments
in the Bay
Area.
Oregon
AFSCME is
the statewide
organization
that coordi-
nates politi-
Michael Seville cal work and
provides staff
representation to locals of state
county and municipal workers.
Seville will begin working
there in mid-June, overlapping
with Allen for six weeks.
With a journalism degree
from University of California
Santa Cruz and a law degree
from Golden Gate University,
Seville worked as a journalist
and as a labor attorney prior to
joining Local 21. As a lawyer
representing building trades
unions in San Francisco, he
helped secure an agreement that
established saliva testing as a
more accurate, less intrusive
form of drug testing.
At Local 21, Seville led fights
against contracting out union
members’ work, and helped de-
feat an attempt to cut public em-
ployee pensions in San Jose. He
also helped create a publicity
campaign that highlighted the
work of Local 21 members.
Seville said he expects to
bring Local 21’s fact-driven ap-
proach to contract bargaining, in
which the union conducts a
thorough economic analysis be-
fore beginning negotiations.
“We pride ourselves on
knowing the budget better than
the employer,” Seville told the
Labor Press.
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killed in 2014 increased 9 per-
cent to 1,621, the highest ever
recorded by the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics’ census, which
started in 1992.
Rebecca Reindel, a safety
and health specialist with the
national AFL-CIO, told Fair-
Warning Reports that the bulk
of the increase in the older
worker category came among
people age 65 and up.
“We have people working
longer now than they have in
the past, and older workers can
be at great risk for safety and
health hazards,” Reindel said.
“Too often employers want the
worker to adapt to the process
rather than designing a process
to adapt to the worker. And, in
an aging work force, those
problems become more promi-
nent.”
Contract workers accounted
for 17 percent of all job-related
deaths in 2014, rising 6 percent
to 797. Fatal injuries to self-em-
ployed workers rose 10 percent
to 1,047.
Women killed on the job rose
13 percent to 359. Even with
this increase, women accounted
for only 8 percent of all job-re-
lated deaths in 2014.
Fatal work injuries among
men were higher at 4,320.
Out of 4,251 worker fatalities
in private industry in 2014, 874
—or 20.5 percent—were in
construction. The leading
causes were falls (349), electro-
cutions (74), struck by object
(73), and caught-in/between
(12). These “Fatal Four” were
responsible for 58.1 percent of
construction casualties in 2014,
BLS reports.
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