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Unions are struggling. Workers are intimidated. Congress is comatose. The courts are rigged. OSHA is too small and drastically underfunded.…
Washington OSHA Cracks Down on Amazon’s “Punishing Profit Model”
Last Sunday, March 20, marked the 21st anniversary of one of the greatest crimes in American labor history: President George…
USDA Lets Foxes Guard The Hog House
The US Department of Agriculture has always struggled to balance a split personality: on one hand it’s supposed to “Provide…
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House OSHA Hearing: What You Missed and What It Meant. Part 1
In a fiery rebuttal of Republican and employer attacks on OSHA during the Obama administration, former Assistant Secretary Dr. David…
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Safe and Health Workplaces: Short Stuff
The moral of this week’s stories is that if you find yourself eating pork chops at your fancy seaside hotel…
OSHA Rejects GAO Poultry Recommendations: Sees No Problem With Workers’ Restroom Access
In a surprising and disappointing apparent rollback of OSHA’s enforcement policy related to poultry inspections, Acting Assistant Secretary Loren Sweatt…
Tesla: Futuristic Cars, Same Old Worker Injuries
Tesla may make shiny, new, innovative, futuristic American automobiles, but the relentless pace at which it pushes its workers is…
Short Stuff: Must-reads
Less Than Chickens In a MUST-READ article, Pro Publica’s Mike Grabell describes the plight of Case Farms poultry workers, most…
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…
History Lesson: Accurate OSHA Recordkeeping Key to Worker Safety and Health
The Senate will vote next week on repealing the Volks rule and thereby making it impossible for OSHA to cite…