Weekly Toll: Workers Memorial Day Edition
Monday was Workers Memorial Day where we pause to remember the dead and fight like hell for the living. Meanwhile,…
Weekly Toll: They Shall Not Rise Again
How Workers Died Last Week: Tanker explosion, highway work zone, electrocution, falling cargo, vehicle incident, shootings. On average, over 100…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week. Killed in highway construction, crushed by animal feed and concrete block, forklift incidents, crushed by…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
How workers died last week. Trench collapse, hit by a crane, suffocated in grain bin, fall, crushed by machinery, skid…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died last week. Decapitated in woodchipper, crushed by concrete slab, air crashes, coal mining, electrocution ,airport tarmac accident,…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Welcome Dylan Chamberlain, a labor studies major at Columbia University, who has graciously volunteered to take over writing The Weekly…
Weekly Toll: Death in the New Year
How workers died last week. Trench collapse, falls, skid loader, machinery, firefighting, vehicle incidents, shootings and stabbing. On average, over…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
How workers died last week. 17 year old at amusement part, building collapse, correction officer beaten to death, stabbing, shootings,…
Massachusetts Decides if Uber & Lyft Drivers Have Rights
Have you taken an Uber or a Lyft lately? What do you know about these two app-based ride-sharing giants and…
Tips Are On The Policy Menu
Almost anyone following current labor issues (or who works at a minimum wage job) knows that the federal minimum wage…