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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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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
Weekly Toll
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Weekly Toll
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
Immigrants
An Open Letter to ICE Agents
How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
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How Workers Died Last Week: The Weekly Toll
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Journalism Labor Unions Railroads
Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
Humor

Texting and Driving: Today’s Public Service Announcement

April 24, 2018 Jordan Barab

Courtesy of @WesternCapeGov and the National Safety Council. “You can’t even text and walk…” – Thank you @WesternCapeGov for creating…

AFL-CIO Workers Memorial Day

Workers Memorial Day: April 28

April 23, 2018 Jordan Barab

Workers Memorial Day — when people from around the world come together to remember those who have been killed, injured…

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Weekly Toll: Workers Memorial Day Week Edition

April 23, 2018 Jordan Barab

Waffle House shooting: Police release names of victims killed in Nashville attack Nashville, TN — Nashville police have released the…

Labor Unions Short Stuff Trench Collapse

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

April 20, 2018 Jordan Barab

More Tesla: I wrote earlier this week about the health and safety issues, and under-reporting of injuries and illnesses at…

This Day In History Workplace Catastrophes

8th Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill

April 20, 2018 Jordan Barab

Today is the 8th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and created the largest oil spill…

Agriculture Ergonomics

USDA Lets Foxes Guard The Hog House

April 19, 2018 Jordan Barab

The US Department of Agriculture has always struggled to balance a split personality: on one hand it’s supposed to “Provide…

Department of Labor

My Trip to the Department of Labor

April 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

I had the pleasure of attending the unveiling of former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’s official portrait yesterday. Nancy Pelosi,…

Automobile Industry Recordkeeping Volks Rule

Production Over Safety at Tesla: “People are getting hurt every day”

April 18, 2018 Jordan Barab

Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and Tesla is a seriously strange and driven guy. Sometimes that can be amusing if…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace

April 17, 2018 Jordan Barab

A couple more public employees and a “freak accident.” Wanna bet? One dead after industrial accident at Vulcraft in Norfolk,…

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…

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