Deadly Injustice: Public Employees as Second Class Citizens
This is a tale of two systems: One where employees are protected by a law requiring them to be provided…
Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died over the past few weeks: I was on vacation for a couple of weeks, so this is…
Weekly Toll: Killed in the Workplace
How workers died last week: trench collapse, explosions, electrocution, falls, vehicle incidents, shootings. On average, over 100 workers are killed…
Weekly Toll: Workers Who Will Not Be Coming Home
Last week workers were electrocuted, killed in a trench collapse, died in falls, crushed by machinery, shot and a bunch…
City Turns Contractor into OSHA for Trench Hazards
Last Fall, I wrote about the failure of my city’s public works department to enforce safe working conditions for the…
Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead
Last Week was Workers Memorial Day. Workers were killed in yet another trench collapse, petroleum plant explosion, falls, shootings, tree…
Workers Memorial Day: Mourn for Tony Rice, and Fight for All Public Employees
Today is Workers Memorial day where we’re supposed to mourn for all workers killed on the job and fight for…
Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead
Last week workers were decapitated in a vehicle crash, crushed in a trench collapse, caught in machinery and killed in…
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Workplace Violence Back on Congressional Agenda Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) re-introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Died Last Week
Last week workers were crushed in a trench collapse, machinery and by a falling pipe. A worker died of a…