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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
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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
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In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
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Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
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Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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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
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FY 2019 OSHA Budget Is Here: Good News, But More Work to be Done

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Happy New Year!!! Hope you’re not still hung over from celebrating the dawn of Fiscal Year 2019. Well wake up,…

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A Word From Our Sponsors

October 1, 2018 Jordan Barab

Twitter! Right Now!! Do you follow me on Twitter? Why not? Turns out I’m one of the “12 Workplace Safety…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: September is Finished, but Workplace Deaths Go On

October 1, 2018 Jordan Barab

2 Mississippi police officers dead, suspect in custody after shootout BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — Two police officers were shot and killed…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Window Washers, New York City

September 30, 2018 Jordan Barab
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Cheer Up: More Bad News

September 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

The sorry attempt to place Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court isn’t the only bad news depressing us here at…

Chemical Plant Safety OSHA Process Safety Management

Don’t Want to be Incinerated in Your Sleep? Too Bad

September 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

Well there’s some very bad news for those of you who don’t want to be blown to smithereens in your…

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Working in Mordor: Workers and the Hazards of Oil & Gas Pipeline Work

September 26, 2018 Jordan Barab

It is Halloween night, 2016, and, as I reach the outskirts of town, it feels as though I am entering…

Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Last Week

September 25, 2018 Jordan Barab

Corrections officer at Oak Park Heights dies after helping colleague attacked by inmate Oak Park Heights, MN — A corrections…

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Freak Accidents? How to Tell

September 24, 2018 Jordan Barab

Some people — especially journalists — sometimes falsely label workplace fatalities as “freak accidents” even when they’ve happened before and…

OSHA

Scott Mugno: Rising from the Dead?

September 24, 2018 Jordan Barab

While Rod Rosenstein and Brett Kavanaugh may be on their way out, OSHA nominee Scott Mugno and other Department of…

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