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Fall 2018 Regulatory Agenda: No Surprises
Lots happening these days: the grizzly murder of a Saudi journalist, baseball championships (Go Dodgers!!), mid-term elections, Presidential temper tantrums…
Weekly Toll: A Few of the Workers Killed on the Job Last Week
Question: in this election season, how many candidates are being asked about their plans to reduce the every-day carnage in…
OSHA Weakens Workers’ Protections Against Retaliation for Reporting Injuries
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a memo Thursday weakening workers’ protection against employer retaliation for reporting injuries and…
Harder Times for Poultry Workers
A 59-year-old employee at Allen Harim poultry plant in Harbeson, Delaware was killed last week from a serious head trauma…
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Susan Harwood Worker Training Program
Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Health and Safety: Short Stuff
The Little Program That Refuses To Die: OSHA announced its 2018 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees last week. This is the…
Weekly Toll: Workers Die at Gas Stations, Construction Sites, Bowling Alleys, Chicken Processing Plants, in Rivers and Falling off Buildings
Boom truck hits power lines in Flagler, electrocuting 2 workers PALM COAST, Fla. – Two construction workers were electrocuted Monday…
Ken Ward: Genius Journalist
Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward is a rare specimen in many ways. First, he’s a journalist — and there aren’t…
Public Employees at Risk: America’s Second-Class Citizens
What do Moises Dominguez, Cameron Leeds and Charlie McLaughlin have in common? All of them are public employees listed in…
“We mean nothing to no one” — Slaughter In The Trenches
It never stops. Two workers, Juan Baez-Sanchez, 42, and Victoriano Garcia-Perez, 56, both Mexican immigrants, died in the collapse of…