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The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families

January 16, 2026 Kathleen Rest
In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025

January 15, 2026 Jordan Barab
Uncategorized

Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab
Congress Silica

Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers

January 14, 2026 Jordan Barab
Public Employees Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

January 12, 2026 Jordan Barab
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The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
Labor
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Uncategorized
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Congress Silica
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
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
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
Labor
The Changing Landscape of Minimum Wage Across America in 2025 – and What It Means for Workers and Their Families
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2025
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Uncategorized
Trump Administration Retreats on NIOSH Destruction
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Congress Silica
Congressional Hearing: Protecting an Industry that is Killing Workers
Blame the Worker Lac Megantic Railroads

Lac-Mégantic Trial Moves Forward

October 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

The trial of three rail employees blamed for the deaths of 47 people when a train carrying 73 cars of…

Harwood (See Susan Harwood Worker Training Program) Labor Unions Mine Safety MSHA OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

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

October 12, 2017 Jordan Barab

Just got back from a couple of weeks away and thought I’d spend some time catching up on what’s been…

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Las Vegas

October 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Maybe it’s because I’m a creature of Washington, but it occurs to me that if 60 people were killed as…

Blame the Worker Lac Megantic Railroads

Lac Mégantic: Blame the Worker on Steroids

September 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

An unmanned, half-mile long train “bomb train” carrying tank-cars full of highly explosive crude oil barrels toward a city where…

Agriculture

Dairy Workers: Suffocating in Manure

September 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

Tim Craig has written a very good, if disturbing article in the Washington Post about hazardous conditions for dairy farm…

Blame the Worker OSHA

Who Is Responsible For Worker Safety?

September 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

One of the free services we provide here at Confined Space world headquarter is helping journalists write better articles. Here…

Blog

I’m outa here….

September 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

For a couple of weeks… Blogging will be light over the next couple of weeks as I head out on…

Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Not Coming Home This Week

September 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

68-year-old man killed in workplace accident in Hall County Atlanta, GA — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.…

Fatalities OSHA Public Employees

Will We Ever Know How Rickey Nombrano Died?

September 25, 2017 Jordan Barab

Ricky Nombrano, part of the Ballinger, Texas city work crew was killed earlier this week “while operating heavy equipment.” We…

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Vendor, New York City

September 22, 2017 Jordan Barab

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