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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 2, 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
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
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
AFL-CIO Bureau of Labor Statistics Workers Memorial Day

Death on the Job: Workers Memorial Day Update

April 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

Workers Memorial Day is Friday. Events are being organized all over the world, and the AFL-CIO has just issued its…

AFL-CIO Alex Acosta Ergonomics Short Stuff Workers Memorial Day

Short Stuff: News You Might Want To Know

April 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

♦ From Mitch to Donald, with Love: Looks like we may have a Secretary of Labor by Thursday. Senate Leader…

International

Rana Plaza: Improvement for Garment Workers after Four Years?

April 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

Today marks four years since the catastrophic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 workers. And before…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the Workplace

April 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

Another week of workers being killed in the workplace by being crushed, dying in falls, killed in traffic accidents, shot,…

Enforcement OSHA Press Releases

OSHA Enforcement: OSHA Continues to Protect Employers from Hazardous Press Releases.

April 24, 2017 Jordan Barab

Twenty more companies succeeded over the past week in hiding federal OSHA enforcement actions from the withering public scrutiny that…

Workplace Illness

Radium Girls: Glowing and Dying

April 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

If you caught “Weekend Edition” on NPR this morning, you heard a fascinating, but tragic interview with Kate Moore about…

Labor Unions OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Hit the fu**ing Road Jack: Why we need a strong OSHA enforcement program.

April 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

This is not generally how a good company wants a supervisor to respond to a worker who reports unsafe conditions:…

Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency

Foxes, Henhouses and our Health

April 20, 2017 Jordan Barab

Earlier this week I reviewed a New York Times article on conflicts of interest among Trump political appointees that highlighted…

OSHA Workplace Violence

Your Job or Your Life

April 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

I just received an invitation to a Washington DC Workers Memorial Day event titled “No worker should have to sacrifice…

Congress Fatalities

Congress gets front row look at death in the workplace

April 19, 2017 Jordan Barab

A Congressperson looking out the office window or crossing the street to the Capitol yesterday morning could would have witnessed…

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