Poultry Industry Injury Numbers Need a Closer Look
Cover photo by Earl Dotter. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently published its annual workplace injury and illness report for…
COVID-19
Dipatches (Short Stuff)
Heat
Meatpacking & Poultry Workers
Mine Safety
MSHA
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Silica
Workplace Violence
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Occupational Safety and Health
Mine Employee and Company Convicted of Falsifying Coal Dust Sampling Walter Perkins, a coal dust examiner in Harlan County, KY,…
Labor Department Cracks Down on Child Labor
Last Fall, I wrote about a Labor Department injunction against Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI) for illegally employing 31 children…
Immigrant Worker Lives Matter
Sometimes you see things and all you can do is shake your head — and write. On January 9, police…
Asbestos
Automobile Industry
Immigrants
Meatpacking & Poultry Workers
Short Stuff
Temporary Employees
Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Animal Agriculture is Dangerous Animal agriculture Is dangerous work and the people who do it have few protections, according to…
Child Labor in the Most Dangerous Workplaces
School-age children working all night — and getting injured — in some of the most hazardous workplaces in the country.…
COVID-19
Dipatches (Short Stuff)
Do It Yourself
Labor Unions
Meatpacking & Poultry Workers
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Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Safety and Labor
Most Influential In our Hearts: Despite the global campaign championing Rory O’Neill for the most influential individual in health and…
Health Care Workers Hit Hard by COVID
It should come as no surprise that health care workers were hit hard by COVID-19. And if there was any…
Hearing Tomorrow on Impact Of COVID On Meatpacking Workers
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, will hold a hybrid remote/in-person hearing…