The Quiet Heroes of the Back-to-School Season
In many places, students are returning to school this week, and the familiar signs of a new academic year are…
Trump’s Dangerous “Gold Standard” for Science
Under threat: scientists’ independence to do research and tell the truth; public health science; and science at universities Likely outcome:…
Worker Deaths Approaching Labor Day: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Machinery, lawn care, grain bin, firefighting, rollovers, tractor incident, firefighting, welding explosion, vehicular collisions and…
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,…