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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?

September 5, 2025 Jordan Barab
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September 4, 2025 Jordan Barab
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September 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

September 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
Public Employees
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
Infectious Diseases Process Safety Management Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Workplace Violence
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
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House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
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Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
Public Employees
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
Infectious Diseases Process Safety Management Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Workplace Violence
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Budget
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
DOGE OSHA Trump

Democrats Demand Answers on DOL Book Burning

February 14, 2025 Jordan Barab

Democrats are fighting back. Earlier this week, Confined Space reported that numerous OSHA health and safety documents had been banned…

Bureau of Labor Statistics DOGE OSHA

Unions Refile Lawsuit to Keep DOGE Out of DOL

February 13, 2025 Jordan Barab

A group of AFL-CIO unions, an economic think tank and partner organizations filed an amended lawsuit to protect the confidential…

Amazon DOGE MSHA OSHA

Trump Picks OSHA/MSHA Heads

February 13, 2025 Jordan Barab

Lot’s happening (and some things not happening). Chavez DeRemer Snowed Out Not happening for now is the confirmation hearing for…

DOGE Trump

Book Burning Begins at OSHA

February 11, 2025 Jordan Barab

Trump’s purge of documents containing “offensive” words from government websites is the new book-burning. But this book burning doesn’t just…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed at Work

February 10, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Suffocated in a collapsed trench, hit by a car while on strike, airplane crash, shot…

Department of Labor DOGE Trump

Court Rejects Union Bid to Halt DOGE Access to DOL Information

February 9, 2025 Jordan Barab

Judge John D. Bates late Friday night rejected a union request for a Temporary Restraining Order that would have stopped…

DOGE Trump

Feeding Them Into a Wood Chipper

February 8, 2025 Jordan Barab

Poor timing Elon.

Deconstructing the Administrative State DOGE Trump

2.5 Weeks into Trump 2.0

February 7, 2025 Michael Felsen

I‘m pretty confident that those of you who read Confined Space are following, with fury and/or terror, the stream of…

Department of Labor DOGE Trump

Mass Demonstration, Lawsuit Drives DOGE From Labor Department

February 6, 2025 Jordan Barab

Millions of American workers converged on the U.S. Department of Labor yesterday blocking oligarch Elon Musk’s impending hostile and illegal…

DOGE OSHA Trump

Contact Me (Confidentially)

February 5, 2025 Jordan Barab

To all OSHA or DOL staff. If you know what’s going on at DOL or OSHA with Trump, Elon, etc,…

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