Michael J. Wright, Director, USW Health, Safety & Environment Dept., before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection; Feb. 25, 2009; Washington, DC.

Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify this morning on the important issue of chemical safety. My name is Mike Wright; I’m the Director of Health, Safety and Environment for the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union – USW for short. We represent 850,000 workers in the sectors I just mentioned and many others, including the majority of unionized workers in the chemical industry and hundreds of thousands of workers who use industrial chemicals on the job ... more