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December 22, 2025 Jordan Barab
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An Open Letter to ICE Agents

December 18, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll

December 16, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition

December 15, 2025 Jordan Barab
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Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
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Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
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Events For Those in Washington DC

September 6, 2018 Jordan Barab

A photo book release and a day-long journalist-research symposium LIFE’S WORK, A Fifty Year Photographic Chronicle of Working in the…

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Weekly Toll: Labor Day Edition

September 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Erie man killed in North East workplace accident NORTH EAST, PA — The Pennsylvania State Police and the Erie County…

This Day In History

Today in History: Anniversary Of Hamlet Fire That Killed 25 Workers Locked In The Plant

September 3, 2018 Jordan Barab

Twenty-seven years ago today, twenty-five chicken processing workers were killed when fire swept through the Imperial Food Products Company plant…

Short Stuff

Dispatches from the Front Line of the Battle for Workplace and Environmental Safety

August 31, 2018 Jordan Barab

See No Evil, Radiate No Evil: Nuclear safety advocate and form Department of Energy official Bob Alverez describes how Trump’s…

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Worker Killed In Trench Collapse — Again. Why? And What Can Be Done?

August 30, 2018 Jordan Barab

Another in a continuing, never-ending series on the tragedy of preventable trench collapses (and the journalism that accompanies them.) Anthony…

OSHA

“Safety Is Our Top Priority”

August 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

I read a lot of articles about workers getting killed on the job in preventable incidents. They’re always upsetting. But…

Humor

Trump Calls For More Regulation!

August 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Observers wait to see what two regulations of equivalent cost he will withdraw to make room under his 1-in/2-out Executive…

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Weekly Toll: Summer Ends, Workplace Deaths Continue

August 28, 2018 Jordan Barab

Man run over while overhauling bus at Chicago Heights junkyard Chicago, IL — A man died after being run over…

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Court Orders EPA To Implement Chemical Plant Safety Rule

August 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

In a stinging rebuke to the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal court has called EPA’s delay in implementing the Obama…

Agriculture Brett Kavanaugh Deconstructing the Administrative State Enforcement Environmental Protection Agency Short Stuff

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

August 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

Poison Food, Poisoned Workers: Eyal Press of The Intercept writes about chronic health problems that have plagued Jessica Robertson since…

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