Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
When it comes to attacks on workplace safety and workers' rights, it's always something. Read all about it here. You…
Crushed to Death and Discarded: The Invisible “Third Men” of New York’s Garbage Industry
There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and some of them — like this one — you’d never…
Really Stupid Sh*t: Johns Hopkins, Scott Walker and Bad Foster Parents
Sometimes you just have to smack your head and laugh. Because the only other thing you can do is scream…
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…
Boiled to Death, Buried Alive and Leg Ripped Off: The Stories Behind the Statistics
One of the fathers of occupational health, Irving Selikoff, once said that “statistics are people with the tears wiped away.”…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of the War On Worker Safety: Short Stuff
The Incredible Disappearing Security Breach: Hard to know what to say about this. Remember that alleged security “breach” in OSHA’s…
Solution to Workplace Injury of Immigrant Workers: Deportation
Immigrant workers do some of the most dangerous jobs in this country, and get hurt and killed most often. Now…
Ohio Decides Injured Workers Deserve Workers Comp — Even if Undocumented
A proposal that would have blocked workers compensation benefits for undocumented workers injured on the job was defeated Wednesday in…
Lead Poisoning, Murder, and Trump’s Father-Daughter War on Workers: Short Stuff
Get the Lead Out: Joe Rubin at Huffington Post has a troubling story of how the California Department of Public…
Some Bad News (about NY Dairy Workers), But Also Good News: Read All About It in Short Stuff
Milking the Workers? Farm worker advocates have published a survey of mostly undocumented Hispanic workers that describes discrimination and workplace…