Her announcement came one day after the opening of an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of American History on the origin of sweatshops and factors that make their existence possible today. It was bitterly criticized by segments of the apparel industry, because the industry, they said, was shown in a negative light. It was ratified with the first unanimous vote in the local s history. Also won was full funding for health insurance, which heads off increases in members co-pays and deductibles. New Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show that while private industry workplace injury rates rose 3 percent between 1985 and 1995, workplace injuries in hospitals rose 25 percent, and worker injuries in nursing home and personal care facilities rose 37 percent.
Experts attribute the alarming trend to consolidation and downsizing in the health care industry.
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