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

September 5, 2025 Jordan Barab
Infectious Diseases Process Safety Management Regulations and Standards Regulatory Process Workplace Violence

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?
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City Decides to Protect Public Employees. Where’s the Rest of the State?
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DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
House Budget Bill Mostly Duplicates Trump Request
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Labor Day Weekly Toll: Dead on the Job
Confined Space Heat Mine Safety Weekly Toll
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Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
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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
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Scientists Study a New Risk Factor – Take a Guess

February 28, 2025 Kathleen Rest

A new risk factor? Wait, what exactly is a “risk factor? Good question. You don’t need to be an epidemiologist…

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Chavez-DeRemer Moves Forward. Sonderling Flails

February 27, 2025 Jordan Barab

Secretary of Labor nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer was approved this morning by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee by…

Dipatches (Short Stuff) Short Stuff

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Workplace Safety & Health

February 25, 2025 Jordan Barab

OSHA Cites Tesla OSHA has issued a citation against Tesla in Texas for violation of OSHA standard leading to the…

Public Employees Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed In The Line of Duty

February 24, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Trench collapse, avalanche, crushed by a car lift, fall, fire, struck by a loose tire,…

Centers for Disease Control DOGE Infectious Diseases

DOGE Descends on Public Health

February 24, 2025 Kathleen Rest

Breaking News! It’s official: The official Public Health Week may be in April, but Elon Musk has declared the month…

Department of Labor Trump

Chavez-De Remer: All Things to All People

February 20, 2025 Jordan Barab

I watched the confirmation hearing of Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Secretary of Labor so you wouldn’t have to. You can listen…

Department of Labor Trump

Labor Secretary Confirmation Hearing Today

February 19, 2025 Jordan Barab

Tune in at 10:00 to see the confirmation hearing of former Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Secretary of Labor. You can…

Public Employees Trench Collapse

Mistakes Were Made. And Two City Workers are Dead

February 18, 2025 Jordan Barab

Enough with the current Trump-induced catastrophes engulfing the nation and its working people. Let’s go local and talk about an…

Trench Collapse Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: How Workers Die

February 18, 2025 Dylan Chamberlin

How workers died last week. Trench collapse, hit by a crane, suffocated in grain bin, fall, crushed by machinery, skid…

Department of Labor DOGE Trump

Court Again Rejects Unions’ Request to Keep DOGE out of DOL

February 17, 2025 Jordan Barab

Federal Judge John D. Bates has once again rejected labor unions’ request for a Temporary Restraining Order that would have…

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