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Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

January 18, 2024 Kathleen Rest & Jordan Barab

Violent Assaults Against Workers Continue While OSHA continues to sloooowly make progress on its standard to protect healthcare workers against…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health

June 29, 2022 Jordan Barab

Violence Against Transit Workers Transit workers and labor unions across America are sounding the alarm over the trend of violence,…

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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Most Influential Of Them All?

December 7, 2021 Jordan Barab

Most influential? Good question. I’m not sure anyone is asking in this country, but Safety and Health Practitioner is holding…

AFL-CIO International Workers Memorial Day Workplace Violence

Approaching Workers Memorial Day

April 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

This Saturday, April 28 is Workers Memorial Day 2018 and union leaders, politicians and activists across the country are weighing…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines of the War On Worker Safety: Short Stuff

September 11, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Incredible Disappearing Security Breach: Hard to know what to say about this. Remember that alleged security “breach” in OSHA’s…

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Dispatches From the Front Lines Of Worker Safety and Health: Short Stuff

August 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

EPA Suffers From Shortage of Common Sense: Attorneys General from 11 states — New York, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,…

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Short Stuff: Information to Make Your Life More Interesting

May 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

Raw Sewage and A Foot per Worker: The Labor Department filed a lawsuit against G Farms in El Mirage, Arizona…

Rana Plaza: Improvement for Garment Workers after Four Years?

April 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

Today marks four years since the catastrophic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 workers. And before…