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Immigrants

An Open Letter to ICE Agents

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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

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Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays

December 12, 2025 Kathleen Rest
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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
Give Workers the Gift of Kindness When Shopping for the Holidays
Labor
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OSHA Recordkeeping

OSHA Shuts Down Recordkeeping Webpage Due To Alleged Security Breach

August 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA announced yesterday that it was temporarily shutting down a portal for employers to report injuries and illnesses while the…

Immigrants Workers Compensation

Solution to Workplace Injury of Immigrant Workers: Deportation

August 17, 2017 Jordan Barab

Immigrant workers do some of the most dangerous jobs in this country, and get hurt and killed most often. Now…

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

August 16, 2017 Jordan Barab

Problem with the job? Go kill yourselves: You’ve all heard the phrase “Your job of your life,” but Richland County,…

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Serial Violator Blames OSHA Penalties for Layoffs

August 10, 2017 Jordan Barab

Aluminum Shapes, a New Jersey company, has the rare distinction of being the subject of one of only ten enforcement-related…

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Blogging Forcast: Light

August 7, 2017 Jordan Barab

The overlords of Confined Space World Headquarters have given the entire staff a week and a half off. (That's just…

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GAO to OSHA: What’s Up With Workplace Violence and Ammonium Nitrate?

August 4, 2017 Jordan Barab

The Republican Congress may not be fulfilling it responsibility to provide oversight over a Republican-controlled OSHA, but the Government Accountability…

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WTF?! Friday Fall Protection Edition

August 4, 2017 Jordan Barab

There’s an old saying, I’m pretty sure from Confucius: “Take heed. It is always a bad idea to do an…

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Press Releases Reduce Workplace Injuries. So Why Has OSHA Stopped Issuing Them?

August 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

I’ve been writing (over and over again) about OSHA’s failure to issue more than a tiny number of enforcement-related press…

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August 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

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Doubt Grows Concerning ATF Conclusion that West Fertilizer Fire was Deliberately Set

August 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

Sometimes blogging is like shouting into the wind. All you hear are echos of your own voice. Then silence. But,…

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