As Mining Deaths Rise, MSHA Gets Acting Head — With No Mine Safety Experience
MSHA has joined OSHA with a new Deputy Assistant Secretary as the agency’s highest official until an Assistant Secretary is…
Trump Heads to Coal Country to Give Best Speech Ever Made
President Trump is heading to West Virginia coal country tonight to give the best-speech-ever-made to the largest crowd the state…
House Budget Devastates OSHA and MSHA Enforcement
The House of Representatives has released the details on worker safety and health funding in the FY 2018 Labor-HHS appropriations…
House Releases Labor Budget Bill — And It’s Even Worse than Trump’s
You thought Trump’s budget proposal was bad for OSHA? Well, our Republican friends in the House of Representatives have issued…
Time To Act: Save Worker Training Grants, Health & Safety Research
If you haven’t yet done so, it’s time to do so. And if you have done so, do it again:…
Short Stuff: More Problems for Construction, Poultry Processing, Farms and Whistleblowers. So why doesn’t anyone want to work at DOL?
Do Not Pass go: The New York Times reports that “the owner of two Brooklyn construction companies was charged with…
Trump FY 18 Budget Slashes Research, Kills Harwood Training Program and Chemical Safety Board
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. — Jacob Lew…
2018 Trump Budget Preview: OSHA gets cut, NIOSH gets Disemboweled
“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” ― Joe Biden…
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Raw Sewage and A Foot per Worker: The Labor Department filed a lawsuit against G Farms in El Mirage, Arizona…
Has Prison Rehabilitated Don Blankenship?
Don Blankenship got out of jail this week and instead of taking the path of penitence after a year of…