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2018: The Workplace Safety and Health Year in Review

January 3, 2019 Jordan Barab

2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

November 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA: The Incredible Shrinking Agency: The number of OSHA inspectors has hit an all-time low according to data compiled by…

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Kavanaugh: Is There Honor in Getting Your Fingers Bitten Off?

September 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

When Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh comes back before the Senate next week to respond to allegations of attempted rape,…

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There He Goes Again: Kavanaugh Still Doesn’t Get It

September 14, 2018 Jordan Barab

Good news! Good News! Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh thinks it’s perfectly reasonable for American workers to expect to come…

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Kavanaugh’s Lies About SeaWorld: Annotated

September 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Allow me to be blunt: Judge Brett Kavanaugh lied about the SeaWorld case during his Senate Confirmation testimony last week…

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Doing Harm in the Name of Liberty: Lisa Heinzerling on Kavanaugh’s Nomination

September 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Georgetown Professor of Law Lisa Heinzerling has always been a fresh voice in defending workplace, environmental and consumer protections against…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

August 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

Poison Food, Poisoned Workers: Eyal Press of The Intercept writes about chronic health problems that have plagued Jessica Robertson since…

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Kavanaugh Watch: Bad Forecast for Worker and Environmental Protections

July 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

And in our continuing series of posts about why Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court would be a disaster…

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Kavanaugh’s Labor Record: Unanimously Awful

July 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

After President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, I wrote a post describing his anti-worker dissent in the…

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Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA

July 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

While most of the discussion of President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court focuses on the possibility…