Today’s Bad Idea: Merge Labor and Education Departments
The Trump administration today proposed to merge the Department of Labor into the Department of Education. While some have suggested…
SEIU Retires Its Safety and Health Program
A recent study by Harvard University professor Michael Zoorob showed that unionization saves lives. That’s the good news. But it…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety and Health: Short Stuff
Death by Trench: Equipment World has just completed a special report on trench hazards and the dozens of preventable deaths…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
Genesee Power Station employee dies in workplace accident FLINT, MI – An employee died in an industrial accident at the…
Century Foundation: EPA Foot-Dragging on Methylene Chloride Is Endangering Workers and Consumers
Check out my commentary on The Century Foundation’s website on EPA’s foot-dragging on banning the use of methylene chloride as…
House Subcommittee Votes to Cut OSHA Funding
The House of Representatives Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee has reported out a bill cutting overall OSHA funding from $552.78 million in…
OSHA Enforcement in Decline Data Shows
Words Words Words I’m so sick of words I get words all day through First from him, now from you…
OSHA Weakens Voluntary Protection Programs’ Integrity
OSHA issued a new policy document last week for its Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), weakening measures taken in the last…
OSHA Silica Standard to Come Into Effect June 23 — with 30-day enforcement delay
In some fairly good news for workers who want to live a full life, but work in foundries or manufacture…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Fatalities
Another week, and another list of preventable deaths. Two double fatalities this week: Two workers killed in a power plant…