Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Health and Safety: Short Stuff
Criminal Conviction Upheld: DNRB, a Missouri warehouse construction contractor (doing business as Fastrack Erectors) was confirmed to be criminally liable…
Kavanaugh Watch: Bad Forecast for Worker and Environmental Protections
And in our continuing series of posts about why Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court would be a disaster…
Groups Petition OSHA to Issue Heat Standard
Peggy Frank, a 63-year-old California postal worker — and also a mother and grandmother — died last week while working…
Lessons Not Learned at Lac-Mégantic Anniversary
Steve Bannon may have moved out of the West Wing, but he left his goal of “deconstructing the regulatory state”…
Weekly Toll: Workers Not Coming Home From Work Last Week
1 worker killed, 1 hurt after Dumpster falls at NC Campbell’s Soup plant, reports say MAXTON, N.C. (WNCN) – One…
Musk to Tesla Workers: Give up the union or else!
“In a June 2017 meeting with Tesla employees, CEO Elon Musk solicited their complaints about safety issues and promised to…
Kavanaugh’s Labor Record: Unanimously Awful
After President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, I wrote a post describing his anti-worker dissent in the…
Kavanaugh: Threat to Workers and to OSHA
While most of the discussion of President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court focuses on the possibility…
Weekly Toll: A Partial List of Workers Killed On the Job in the Last Week
Houston tow truck driver killed after wrecker stolen HOUSTON, TX — Police say a tow truck driver in Houston whose…
Worker Killed at Louisiana VPP Site
A worker was killed last Wednesday after falling into the water basin of the primary cooling tower at the Phillips…