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In fatalities, union to meet with OSHA

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With tensions over construction worker deaths along the Strip surfacing, about 200 ironworkers filled their union hall Friday night to discuss how to improve workplace safety.

By meeting’s end, there was general agreement among union stewards that they would now participate in conferences between state safety inspectors and contractors when safety violations are discussed in the wake of workplace fatalities.

Such meetings — when contractors can challenge violations and get them reduced or removed — are open to union representatives, but in the nine Strip construction deaths over the past 16 months, unions have not attended a single one, a Sun investigation found.

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