Convention Resolution
Resolution 10: Safe Jobs in a Changing World
… safe and healthy workplaces, we also will work to guarantee an adequate safety net of workers’ compensation insurance benefits for injured workers. Events around the nation as well as in our own communities and workplaces continually remind us … while employers and insurers enjoy rich rewards from the system. Recent reforms have worsened this trade-off: Worker benefits have fallen 38 percent since 1992, while employer costs declined by 41 percent over the same period. And there are strong indications in the insurance market that we can expect a new push to reduce benefits and tighten eligibility. A further indication that workers’ compensation programs around the nation are failing to …