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

September 5, 2025 Jordan Barab
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DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda

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September 2, 2025 Jordan Barab
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September 1, 2025 Jordan Barab
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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
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
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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OSHA Pulls Protections As Healthcare Worker Deaths Rise
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
Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: The Pain Continues

July 3, 2017 Jordan Barab

UGI worker killed in Pa. home explosion, company confirms Lancaster, PA — A UGI worker was killed and two others…

Chemical Standards Deconstructing the Administrative State Environmental Protection Agency Regulations and Standards

EPA: “A Corporate Takeover of the Agency”

July 2, 2017 Jordan Barab

We read the painful stories in the Sunday papers so you don’t have to. Today a story about the corporate…

Beryllium Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Short Stuff Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Save Harwood, War on Workers, War on the Earth: This Week’s Short Stuff

June 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

Save Harwood, Save Workers: The Trump Administration’s plan to scrap the Susan Harwood Worker Training Grant program has been getting…

Immigrants Workers Compensation

Ohio Decides Injured Workers Deserve Workers Comp — Even if Undocumented

June 30, 2017 Jordan Barab

A proposal that would have blocked workers compensation benefits for undocumented workers injured on the job was defeated Wednesday in…

Blame the Worker

Blame The Worker — The Error of Blaming Incidents on “Human Error”

June 29, 2017 Jordan Barab

A New York subway train derailed earlier this week, injuring thirty-four riders and striking fear into the hearts of subway…

Alex Acosta Budget Senate Voluntary Protection Programs

Acosta Testifies in the Senate: Red Lights, Retaliation and VPP

June 28, 2017 Jordan Barab

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta testified yesterday before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related…

Alex Acosta Budget OSHA Susan Harwood Worker Training Program

Save Harwood. Here’s the easy way to Contact Your Congressperson

June 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

Labor Secretary Acosta just finished his last hearing before the Senate on the Department of Labor’s FY 2018 budget. We’ll…

OSHA Recordkeeping

OSHA Proposes to Delay Recordkeeping Rule

June 27, 2017 Jordan Barab

OSHA has officially announced a proposal to delay the reporting requirements of its “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses”…

Fatalities Weekly Toll

Weekly Toll: Workers Dying Every Day

June 26, 2017 Jordan Barab

Worker dies in accident at Weitsman facility Oswego, NY — An employee at Ben Weitsman & Son’s facility in Owego…

Beryllium Construction Deconstructing the Administrative State Labor Unions Regulatory Process

Breaking: OSHA Launches Rollback of Beryllium Worker Protections

June 23, 2017 Jordan Barab

Less than half a year after workers finally received long overdue protections against deadly beryllium dust, the Trump administration has…

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