Sacrificing Your Health For Paycheck: NELP Report on Severe Injuries — Especially in Poultry
Twenty-seven workers suffer severe injuries involving hospitalization or an amputation every day, according to the National Employment Law Project (NELP)…
The Dirty Dozen: National COSH Releases Report on Companies That Put Workers at Risk
Just in time for Workers Memorial Day, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) has announced “The…
Death on the Job: Workers Memorial Day Update
Workers Memorial Day is Friday. Events are being organized all over the world, and the AFL-CIO has just issued its…
Short Stuff: News You Might Want To Know
♦ From Mitch to Donald, with Love: Looks like we may have a Secretary of Labor by Thursday. Senate Leader…
Rana Plaza: Improvement for Garment Workers after Four Years?
Today marks four years since the catastrophic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 workers. And before…
Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace
Another week of workers being killed in the workplace by being crushed, dying in falls, killed in traffic accidents, shot,…
OSHA Enforcement: OSHA Continues to Protect Employers from Hazardous Press Releases.
Twenty more companies succeeded over the past week in hiding federal OSHA enforcement actions from the withering public scrutiny that…
Radium Girls: Glowing and Dying
If you caught “Weekend Edition” on NPR this morning, you heard a fascinating, but tragic interview with Kate Moore about…
Hit the fu**ing Road Jack: Why we need a strong OSHA enforcement program.
This is not generally how a good company wants a supervisor to respond to a worker who reports unsafe conditions:…
Foxes, Henhouses and our Health
Earlier this week I reviewed a New York Times article on conflicts of interest among Trump political appointees that highlighted…