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Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

December 22, 2025 Jordan Barab
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An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition

December 15, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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Weekly Toll
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An Open Letter to ICE Agents
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How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll

December 22, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Trench collapse, skid steer, fork lift, coal mining, fall, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

Immigrants

An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest

To the men and women of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: I write to you not as an adversary, but…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Two separate trench collapses, trash compacter, falls, snowplow, demolition, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

Journalism Labor Unions Railroads

Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition

December 15, 2025 Jordan Barab

The Washington Post has never been an especially labor-friendly organization. I first learned this in 1977 when potential future housemates…

Labor

Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest

It’s that time of year again. Holiday lights are up; there’s a Christmas tree in the town square. The Hanukkah…

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2025 Holiday Book List

December 11, 2025 Jordan Barab

No doubt about it. It’s been a shit year. But there’s good news — especially for those of you who…

Enforcement

Baby It’s Cold Outside! 

December 10, 2025 Kathleen Rest

There’s no snow on the ground, but it’s windy and cold here in Boston this morning – 18°F as I…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

The Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week

December 8, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Trench collapse, tree care, forklift, railroad, construction, stabbing, falls, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…

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Trouble in Republican Paradise? Mineworkers Don’t Want to Die

December 8, 2025 Jordan Barab

News Flash: Some Republican politicians think it might be a bad idea to kill their constituents.

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Death by Deregulation: MSHA to Roll Back Miners’ Silica Protections

December 5, 2025 Jordan Barab

On April 18, 2024 the Biden administration issued a long awaited new silica rule to protect coal miners — more…

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