OSHA Update: Bureaucracy, Budget and Leadership Rumors
It’s mid-summer and a man’s fancy turns to what’s happening in OSHA these days. Let’s update you all before you…
OSHA Speaks to Employers, Ignores Workers, About Deaths in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska
Too many workers are dying in the states of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, according to OSHA Region VII, and employers…
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…