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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?

September 5, 2025 Jordan Barab
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DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda

September 4, 2025 Jordan Barab
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House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request

September 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll

Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job

September 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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A BIG Thank You to Workers Who Keep America Running on Labor Day

September 1, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
Public Employees
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
Infectious Diseases Process Safety Management Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Workplace Violence
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Budget
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
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
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
Public Employees
City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
Infectious Diseases Process Safety Management Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Workplace Violence
DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Budget
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll
Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Environmental Protection Agency OSHA Process Safety Management West Fertilizer Explosion

5th Anniversary of West Fertilizer Explosion: Lessons Learned and Not Learned

April 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

Five years ago tonight a fire broke out at the West Fertilizer company in West, Texas. Emergency responders rushed toward…

Alex Acosta Budget Enforcement OSHA

Acosta Refuses To Commit to Preserving OSHA Recordkeeping Rule

April 12, 2018 Jordan Barab

In a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee today, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta today refused to commit not to…

Blame the Worker Lac Megantic Railroads

Charges Dropped Against Railroad for Lac Mégantic Catastrophe

April 11, 2018 Jordan Barab

Criminal charges have been dropped against Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA), according to Quebec’s Director of Criminal and Penal…

Alex Acosta Beryllium Budget Regulations and Standards

Acosta To Testify Thursday in Senate on FY 2019 DOL Budget

April 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday morning regarding the Presidents FY 2019…

Public Employees

Massachusetts Moves Forward on Protecting Public Employees. But millions remain without protection.

April 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Question 1: What did the following workers have in common? Mercer County village worker killed in industrial accident MENDON, MERCER…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead

April 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Two Fatalities Confirmed in Helicopter Crash Near Smethport Keating Twp, PA — Two workers were killed when a helicopter performing…

Alex Acosta Criminal Prosecution Mine Safety MSHA Short Stuff Wage and Hour Division workplace safety and health programs

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

April 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

Kentucky Limits Black Lung Claims Reviews: We have recently noted that black lung is back with a vengeance after almost…

Mine Safety

Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster Anniversary: Don Blankenship Commemorates By Running for Senate

April 5, 2018 Jordan Barab

Today is the eighth anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion that claimed the lives of 29 coal miners…

Chemical Plant Safety Environmental Protection Agency

Nightmare Now Showing at Chemical Facility Near You

April 4, 2018 Jordan Barab

From my next screenplay….”The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow” Open Old film of an ominous fog spreading across the…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Monthly Version

April 2, 2018 Jordan Barab

FedEx truck driver killed after crashing over highway in Texas DALLAS, TX — A fiery crash killed the driver of…

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