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Dipatches (Short Stuff) Journalism

Dispatches: Some Great Reading to Fire You Up

July 22, 2025 Jordan Barab
Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

July 21, 2025 Jordan Barab
AFL-CIO Congress Voluntary Protection Programs

Congress Holds OSHA Hearing: AFL-CIO Injects Some Reality

July 17, 2025 Jordan Barab
Immigrants Labor Unions

Immigration Enforcement Undermines Worker Health and Safety

July 17, 2025 Stephen Knight
Congress

OSHA Hearing Today

July 16, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Dispatches: Some Great Reading to Fire You Up
Dipatches (Short Stuff) Journalism
Dispatches: Some Great Reading to Fire You Up
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
Weekly Toll
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
Congress Holds OSHA Hearing: AFL-CIO Injects Some Reality
AFL-CIO Congress Voluntary Protection Programs
Congress Holds OSHA Hearing: AFL-CIO Injects Some Reality
Immigration Enforcement Undermines Worker Health and Safety
Immigrants Labor Unions
Immigration Enforcement Undermines Worker Health and Safety
Dipatches (Short Stuff) Journalism

Dispatches: Some Great Reading to Fire You Up

July 22, 2025 Jordan Barab

I’ll taking a break for the next couple of weeks (and hopefully away from the computer.) But just because there’s…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

July 21, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Fall into a meat grinder, crushed by beam, electrocuted, stabbed, shot, suicide, forklift, struck by…

AFL-CIO Congress Voluntary Protection Programs

Congress Holds OSHA Hearing: AFL-CIO Injects Some Reality

July 17, 2025 Jordan Barab

In powerful testimony before the House Education and Labor Workforce Committee yesterday, AFL-CIO Health and Safety Director Rebecca Reindel warned…

Immigrants Labor Unions

Immigration Enforcement Undermines Worker Health and Safety

July 17, 2025 Stephen Knight

The increasingly militarized harassment of immigrants upending our communities across the country has been well understood. Less recognized is how…

Congress

OSHA Hearing Today

July 16, 2025 Jordan Barab

If you’re looking for some excitement this morning, the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will hold…

OSHA Penalties Trump

OSHA Penalties: How Low Can You Go?

July 14, 2025 Jordan Barab

Penalties for violating OSHA standards and imperiling workers health and lives are already embarrassingly low. But apparently not low enough…

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Heat Dome Covers the Right Half of the Country

July 9, 2025 Rena Steinzor

I am an environmental lawyer who came to the challenge of ensuring worker safety and health midway through my career.…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

July 7, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Fireworks explosion, flash flood, tanker explosion, electrocution, tree care, shootings, vehicle incidents. On average, over…

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Entertainers Deserve No Safety: OSHA Wants to Restricts Use of General Duty Clause

July 3, 2025 Jordan Barab

Earlier this week, OSHA dumped dozens of deregulatory proposals into the Federal Register — most dealing with respirator issues, as…

Weekly Toll

Slashed Throat, Cooked in an Oven, Electrocutions and Heat Stroke: Why We Write the Weekly Toll

July 2, 2025 Jordan Barab

This morning we published yet another edition of the Weekly Toll — a list of a few of the workers…

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