Weekly Toll (Actually 3 Weeks): Death in the American Workplace
Summer vacations, eclipses, white power marches and murders –but one constant: people keep dying in American workplaces One killed in…
Weekly Toll: And Congress Wants to Cut OSHA’s Enforcement Budget?
Worker killed after collision with SUV on Fargo airport runway FARGO, ND — A contract worker painting stripes on the…
OSHA Enforcement: Reporters Report While OSHA Mostly Hides
Here we are, at the end of July, and OSHA continues to hide the fact that it actually enforces the…
Weekly Toll: Made In America
Five fatalities in Pennsylvania this week and three in Colorado. Work accident kills Mansfield business owner MANSFIELD, PA — A…
Weekly Toll: Suffocations, Shootings, Highways — again.
Fourth TECO worker dies after accident at plant Tampa, FL — A fourth person has died from the TECO Apollo…
Enforcement Update: OSHA Still Embarrassed About Enforcing the Law
Press Release Drought Continues When Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta testified last month before the US Senate, he committed to…
California Makes Major Move to Protect Refinery Workers (and communities in their shadow)
It’s not all bad news out there. While Washington sucks workers down into an abyss of corporate anarchy, the State…
Truckers: Modern-Day Indentured Servants
Despite the political setback last November, some of us still believe that the arc of justice for working people bends…
Weekly Toll: The Tragedies Never End
Construction Worker Dies After Falling From Brooklyn Building: NYPD New York, NY — A construction worker fell from a building…
Some Bad News (about NY Dairy Workers), But Also Good News: Read All About It in Short Stuff
Milking the Workers? Farm worker advocates have published a survey of mostly undocumented Hispanic workers that describes discrimination and workplace…