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Republicans Try to Impose Death Sentence on Silica Countertop Workers

March 23, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Fatal Workplaces: The Weekly Toll

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Small but Mighty: How One Organization Has Championed Worker Health for Nearly Four Decades

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New DOL Enforcement Memo Details Where Not to Enforce

March 11, 2026 Jordan Barab
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Photo of the Week: Shoe Shine, Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport

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For Your Reading “Pleasure” The explosions in the Arkema Chemical plant in Crosby, Texas will most likely not be catastrophic.…

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Cable news and newspapers across the country are headlining the continuing explosions at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas,…

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The rain finally seems to be stopping in Texas, but the struggles there are just beginning as the huge job…

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Donald Trump is on his way to Springfield, Missouri today to deliver a major speech about tax cuts reform at…

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I was on WTOP Radio at noon today to talk about OSHA’s removal of the list of workplace fatalities from…

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Who’s running OSHA now? Alexandra Berzon of the Wall St. Journal reports that OSHA cut back its reporting of workplace…

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OSHA Covers Up Workplace Fatalities

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Two weeks ago, OSHA gained new political leadership in Deputy Assistant Secretary Loren Sweatt. And now we’re seeing the first…

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Ronald Reagan’s Workplace Safety Legacy

August 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

Yesterday, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta announced that Ronald Reagan would be named to the Labor Hall of Honor. To…

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