Editorial Board Resigns after Corporate Takeover of Worker-Oriented Public Health Journal
The entire 22-member Editorial Board of the International Journal of Occupational and Environment Health resigned this morning after a months-long…
“I Don’t Get Enough E-mail” Said No One, Ever
I can’t do much about the quantity of e-mail you get, but I can help you with the quality of…
Short Stuff: Short, But Interesting
There’s always so much to talk about. Luckily, you have me to distill it for you. Zatezalo to MSHA: The…
Weekly Toll: The Last Two Weeks of Carnage in the American Workplace
These reports always contain an surprising and upsetting diversity of ways to die in the workplace. The last couple of…
Acosta Testifies and He’s Not Terrible
Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta testified last Thursday at a hearing before the full House Education and Workforce Committee, and…
Murray, DeLauro Call on USDA to Reject Chicken Council’s Petition to Increase Line Speeds
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT),…
Arkema Update: Chemical Plants and Climate Change
More information is coming out about the chemical releases at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby Texas following last summer’s…
CSB Withdraws Deepwater Horizon Worker Participation Recommendations
In a 3-1 vote, the Chemical Safety Board voted yesterday to withdraw recommendations calling for the Bureau of Safety and…
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead…
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral The church bell chimed, ’til it…