Business Groups Attack Workers’ Right to Choose Walkaround Representative
The Chamber of Commerce is bored. Marc Freedman, vice president of employment policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, complained…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
Mine Employee and Company Convicted of Falsifying Coal Dust Sampling Walter Perkins, a coal dust examiner in Harlan County, KY,…
Weekly Toll: Death at Work
Last week workers were died of heat stroke, were ingested into an airplane engine, killed in explosions, falls and traffic…
Worker Dies of Heat Stroke 6 days After Abbott Signs Bill Repealing Heat Protections
Less than a week after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill that will repeal measures in Austin and Dallas…
Greg Abbott’s Texas: Where Workers Go To Die
The competition to be the nation’s worst Governor can’t be easy these days, especially when you’re going up against Florida…
Weekly Toll: Workers Who Will Not Be Coming Home
Last week workers were electrocuted, killed in a trench collapse, died in falls, crushed by machinery, shot and a bunch…
Beyond Disappointing: OSHA’s Spring 2023 Regulatory Agenda
As many of you who closely follow the headlines know, the biggest news this week was not that Donald Trump…
Child Labor: 16 Year Old Killed At Landfill
Some jobs teach kids good work habits and skills. Some jobs kill them. Last Thursday morning, two weeks into summer…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week, workers were crushed in machines, and killed in falls, shootings, vehicular incidents and tree trimming. And a 16-year…
OSHA: Ron DeSantis’s “Regulatory Leviathan”
0SHA is every Republican’s favorite punching bag. Including Florida Governor and Presidential aspirant Ron DeSantis. In the 1980’s, Vermont Senator…