Labor Day: A Celebration of Working People—and the Movement That Made It Possible
Ah… Labor Day. For many of us it means a three-day weekend, the last days of summer, a backyard barbecue,…
Heat, Champagne Socialism and Faux Empathy: The Republican Circus
The Republican-controlled House Education and Labor Workforce Committee held a very interesting and helpful circus hearing yesterday on the “burden”…
Worker Bashing Hearing Tomorrow
In case you think the Republican-controlled Congress isn’t doing anything useful, here’s living proof. Tomorrow at 10:15, the House Education…
Killed on the Job: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Explosion, falls, construction incidents, drowning, firefighting, falling objects, farming incident, shootings and vehicular collisions. On…
There When You Need Them 8-21-2026
Imagine it’s Sunday noon, the kind of ordinary hour when nothing is supposed to happen, and you slice your finger…
Victims of Gross Negligence: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Falling objects, explosions, tree care, rollovers, transit death, welding, electrocution, firefighting, vehicular incidents, occupational cancer,…
Workers Not Coming Home This Week: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: rollovers, grain bin incident, three electrocutions, falls, firefighting, industrial incidents, and murder-suicide, on-duty medical emergencies,…
Do Cyberattacks on Water Plants Warn of More Bhopals?
Something wicked this way comes: More deaths, chemical releases and cyberattacks on this this nation’s water and chemical infrastructure. The…
Death in American Workplaces: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench Collapse, falls, tree care, electrocution, machinery, scissor lift, firefighting, lawnmower incident, farming, occupational cancer,…
The Dog Days of Summer and the Workers Who Can’t Escape Them
The Dog Days of Summer – July 3-August 11. The phrase was named after Sirius — the Dog Star —…