Students: Help Workers Fight for Safe Working Conditions
Are you a college or graduate student interested in work, workers and workplace safety and health? Do you want to…
2025 Confined Space Year in Review
Ah, the hopeful dawn of a new year! This is a time when we look back fondly at the events…
This Day in Workplace Safety History: The Sago Mine Disaster
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Sago mine disaster.
Report Card on Previous New Year’s OSH Resolutions
Two years ago, January 1, 2024 — back when the world made sense — I drafted some New Year’s Resolutions…
No Happy New Year: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Logging, construction, gas explosion, truck repair, avalanche, mining, stabbing, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…
Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench collapse, skid steer, fork lift, coal mining, fall, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
To the men and women of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: I write to you not as an adversary, but…
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Two separate trench collapses, trash compacter, falls, snowplow, demolition, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average,…
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
The Washington Post has never been an especially labor-friendly organization. I first learned this in 1977 when potential future housemates…
Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays
It’s that time of year again. Holiday lights are up; there’s a Christmas tree in the town square. The Hanukkah…