Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
How workers died last week: Coal mining, Hurricane Helena, forklifts, falls, logging, vehicle incidents, stabbings and shootings. On average, over…
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…