Tips Are On The Policy Menu
Almost anyone following current labor issues (or who works at a minimum wage job) knows that the federal minimum wage…
Impact Plastics and How Climate Change Threatens Workers
At least six workers in a Tennessee plastics factory are dead or missing after managers allegedly told them not to…
Weekly Toll: Workplace Death
How workers died last week: Forklift, logging, construction, machinery, vehicle incidents, shootings, hurricane work. On average, over 100 workers are…
Maryland Issues Workplace Heat Standard
Last week, in a little noticed statement in the Maryland Register, the Maryland Division of Labor and Industry announced the…
The Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
How workers died last week: Electrocutions, explosions, falls, shootings, crushed in compacter, killed in vehicle incidents. On average, over 100…
MAGA Plans to Capture the Civil Service
Soon after James Garfield was inaugurated in 1881, a disgruntled job seeker shot him at the train station in Washington,…
Public Employees: Live Like Slaves; Die Like Dogs
Following last week’s post about public employee deaths and lack of OSHA coverage, there is unfortunately more to add from…
Weekly Toll: Not Coming Home
How workers died last week: Suffocated in a farm silo and confined spaces, electrocuted, shot, stabbed, hit by vehicles and…
Reflections on 9-11
On Sunday night, September 8, 60 Minutes devoted its entire program to 9/11 and the Fire Department of New York…
Public Employees Killed by Preventable Hazards. And It’s all Legal
Imagine you’re recruited for a job with a bunch of other workers. It’s a job with lots of hazards —…