OSHA Weakens Workers’ Protections Against Retaliation for Reporting Injuries
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a memo Thursday weakening workers’ protection against employer retaliation for reporting injuries and…
Harder Times for Poultry Workers
A 59-year-old employee at Allen Harim poultry plant in Harbeson, Delaware was killed last week from a serious head trauma…
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Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Health and Safety: Short Stuff
The Little Program That Refuses To Die: OSHA announced its 2018 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees last week. This is the…
Public Employees at Risk: America’s Second-Class Citizens
What do Moises Dominguez, Cameron Leeds and Charlie McLaughlin have in common? All of them are public employees listed in…
“We mean nothing to no one” — Slaughter In The Trenches
It never stops. Two workers, Juan Baez-Sanchez, 42, and Victoriano Garcia-Perez, 56, both Mexican immigrants, died in the collapse of…
FY 2019 OSHA Budget Is Here: Good News, But More Work to be Done
Happy New Year!!! Hope you’re not still hung over from celebrating the dawn of Fiscal Year 2019. Well wake up,…
Don’t Want to be Incinerated in Your Sleep? Too Bad
Well there’s some very bad news for those of you who don’t want to be blown to smithereens in your…
Working in Mordor: Workers and the Hazards of Oil & Gas Pipeline Work
It is Halloween night, 2016, and, as I reach the outskirts of town, it feels as though I am entering…
Scott Mugno: Rising from the Dead?
While Rod Rosenstein and Brett Kavanaugh may be on their way out, OSHA nominee Scott Mugno and other Department of…
Kavanaugh: Is There Honor in Getting Your Fingers Bitten Off?
When Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh comes back before the Senate next week to respond to allegations of attempted rape,…