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The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families

January 16, 2026 Kathleen Rest
In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025

January 15, 2026 Jordan Barab
Uncategorized

Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab
Congress Silica

Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

January 12, 2026 Jordan Barab
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The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
Labor
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Uncategorized
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Congress Silica
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
COVID-19 Supreme Court
Supreme Court’s Disastrous OSHA Decision: What Others Are Saying
Brett Kavanaugh OSHA
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
COVID-19 Health Care Workers OSHA
OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
Labor
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Uncategorized
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Congress Silica
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Agriculture Chemical Plant Safety Process Safety Management West Fertilizer Explosion

Farm Bill Drops OSHA Language that Would Have Endangered Chem Plant Workers

December 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

Workers in chemical facilities and those living nearby can sleep easier after the US Congress declined to include language in…

OSHA Recordkeeping

Final OSHA Recordkeeping Rollback Goes to OMB Review

December 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA has submitted its rollback of its electronic recordkeeping rule to White House review ahead of schedule. What's going on?

Agriculture Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Human Statistics Who Won’t Be Coming Home

December 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

A list of a few of the workers in this country who died on the job last week.

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It’s Beginning to Look at Lot Like HanukkahChristmasKwanza: Buy Books

December 7, 2018 Jordan Barab

Whatever you celebrate — or if you’re just into Winter Solstice gift-giving, you can give the gift of books to…

Job Postings

Job Postings

December 7, 2018 Jordan Barab

Introducing a new occasional service of Confined Space: job announcements for health and safety or labor activists. We’re just getting…

Congress OSHA

Mugno or not to Mugno: The Senate Must Decide

December 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

As the sun sets on the 115th Congress and the mid-point of this term of the Trump administration, the sun…

Chemical Plant Safety

Bhopal

December 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

“Bhopal” For health and safety activists and public health people, that word sends shivers up our spines. Thinking of the…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Three Weeks of Death on the Job

December 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Excuse the length of this depressing exercise, but I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and unlike me, workplace…

Agriculture Occupational Disease Poultry Industry Short Stuff

Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

November 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Your job or you unborn child. Your job or your bladder. Your job or your life. These are the choices…

Enforcement OSHA State Plan States

Kentucky OSHA: NPR Story On State’s Failure to Enforce

November 27, 2018 Jordan Barab

Listen here to an NPR investigative story on serious investigation and enforcement problems at Kentucky OSHA. I wrote about this…

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