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How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

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July 8, 2024 Jordan Barab

How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Crushed, electrocuted, shot, suicide, explosion, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers…

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July 3, 2024 Rena Steinzor

Our purpose is reimagining energy for people and our planet. We want to help the world reach net zero and…

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July 2, 2024 Jordan Barab

OSHA announced today the issuance of a draft Heat Protection standard that will protect 36 million workers from the deadly…

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July 1, 2024 Jordan Barab

How Workers Died over the past few weeks: Heat, drowning, workplace violence, electrocution, shootings, falls, explosions, building collapse, vehicle incidents.…

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June 28, 2024 Jordan Barab

Not a good week. And I’m not even talking about last night’s debate. What’s been happening that you really don’t…

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June 24, 2024 Jordan Barab

I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…

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Workplace Heat Protections: Forward for the Feds; Progress and Coup in California

June 21, 2024 Jordan Barab

As the nation plunges into the summer’s first major heat wave, protections for workers seem have taken a couple of…

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Bill Introduced to Stop Public Employees’ Deaths

June 19, 2024 Jordan Barab

Somewhere close to 100 workers are killed in the workplace every week of the year. It’s a tragically normal thing,…

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June 17, 2024 Jordan Barab

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You probably didn’t know…. But a specter is haunting America business. The specter of mass unionization. And the tiny Occupational…

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