The new president of the Associated General Contractors, Chuck Greco, was talking about safety with a reporter at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan, where AGC held its annual convention on March 17-20. There, Greco described what has happened when he had to dismiss a worker for repeated unsafe actions.
"Their wives would call me and say, 'Please give him another chance.' And I'd say, 'If I do that, I'm hurting you, because I've done everything I can to impress him that, if he gets hurt out here, you're the person who is going to suffer.' "