Workplace Heat Protections: Forward for the Feds; Progress and Coup in California
As the nation plunges into the summer’s first major heat wave, protections for workers seem have taken a couple of…
Bill Introduced to Stop Public Employees’ Deaths
Somewhere close to 100 workers are killed in the workplace every week of the year. It’s a tragically normal thing,…
Weekly Toll: How Workers Die
I’ve been traveling for a few weeks, so this and next week’s list will be a bit longer than usual.…
OSHA’s New Walkaround Rule Approaches. Be Afraid?
You probably didn’t know…. But a specter is haunting America business. The specter of mass unionization. And the tiny Occupational…
Florida Solves Climate Change!
Good news America! Florida has solved climate change. Not be reducing greenhouse gases, championing renewable energy, and moving to electric…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week two workers were killed in grain facilities, 8 migrant farmworkers were killed in a traffic incident, workers were…
Birds, Beasts and Workers: Avian Flu
Now that we’re done with COVID-19, it’s time to move on to the next pandemic. Just kidding. We are, of…
Shaking My Head
SMH Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. In this case, both. Check out the photo above.…
Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
Last week workers were killed in a trench collapse, electrocution, vehicle accidents, falls, shootings, forklift incident and on a farm.…
Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job
Last week workers were killed in explosions, trench collapse, electrocution, vehicle accidents, shootings, crushed by machinery and stomped by a…