Labor leaders honor Key Bridge victims on Workers Memorial Day

Sunday was Workers Memorial Day, an annual day of remembrance for laborers killed or hurt on the job, started in 1989 by the AFL-CIO. Thousands of workers nationwide are estimated by the organization of labor unions to be injured or killed on the job each day.

Father Ty Hullinger, of Transfiguration Catholic Community Church in Pigtown, left, and Courtney Jenkins, president of the Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO, embrace after a Workers Memorial Day vigil at Middle Branch Park (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)

As part of the day's commemoration, AFL-CIO's Liz Shuler and Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO's Courtney Jenkins joined Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and leaders from advocacy organizations and the faith community to remember the six workers killed in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March. Read more »