Rebecca Reindel

Rebecca Reindel is the Safety and Health Director at the national AFL-CIO where she brings key and emerging information on workers’ safety and health exposures to federal, international and state policy making. In these efforts, she brings together many stakeholders to assess and characterize workplace exposures, testifies in front of policy makers, and brings working conditions from the shop floor to the halls of government. 

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the democratic, voluntary federation in the U.S. of 60 national labor unions representing 12.5 million working people across a wide variety of industries. Through its national seat and federated bodies in every state of the U.S., the AFL-CIO helps make workplaces safe and equitable and gives working people a collective voice to address workplace injustices without fear or retaliation. The federation comprehensively tracks worker injuries, illnesses and deaths from physical, chemical and biological hazards and has been a leader in efforts to reduce the burden of work-related chronic disease. The federation focuses on multi-level interventions and gives workers a seat at the table to address hazards in their workplaces.