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Immigrants

An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads

Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition

December 15, 2025 Jordan Barab
Labor

Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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2025 Holiday Book List

December 11, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays
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An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Immigrants
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Trench Collapse Weekly Toll
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays
Labor
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Weekly Toll

Workers Who Won’t Be Coming Home: The Weekly Toll

December 1, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Skid steer, electrocution, fire, assault, shootings and vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are…

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A Thanksgiving Thank You for Those Working on the Holiday

November 26, 2025 Kathleen Rest

Thanksgiving is a day when many of us gather with family and friends to relax and celebrate the holiday. Our…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

How Workers Died Last Week: Weekly Toll

November 25, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Trench collapse, machinery, crushed by pipes, acid exposure, forklift, airplane crash, conveyer belt, shootings and…

Mine Safety MSHA This Day In History

Farmington Mine Disaster and the Blood of Coal Miners

November 20, 2025 Jordan Barab

Today is the 57th anniversary of the 1968 Farmington Mine explosion. At 5:30 in the morning on November 20th, a…

Enforcement Journalism

Nevada Gov Drops OSHA Penalties for Musk

November 19, 2025 Jordan Barab

It sounds like one of those detective show plots: Workers suffer serious chemical burns at workplace owned by the world’s…

Weekly Toll

Killed on the Job: Weekly Toll

November 17, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Coal mining, construction, fall, machinery, electrocution, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100 workers…

Weekly Toll

Dead on the Job: The Weekly Toll

November 10, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Airplane crash, suicides, lawnmower, trapped in machinery, firefighting, electrocutions, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average,…

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The Edmund Fitzgerald: 50 Years Later

November 10, 2025 Jordan Barab

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral The church bell chimed, ’til it…

International

The Work Continues: Ramazzini Days 2025 and the Future of Occupational Health

November 5, 2025 Chip Hughes

Carpi, a medieval city in Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, hosted something urgent last weekend—not in the sense of panic, but…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Killed at Work: The Weekly Toll

November 3, 2025 Jordan Barab

How workers died last week: Logging, tree care, electrocution, fall, drowning, vehicle incidents and shootings. On average, over 100 workers…

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