Public Employees: Still Second-Class Citizens After 51 Years
When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…
The Last Weekly Toll: They Shall Not Be Forgotten
This is the last Weekly Toll. The last list of workers killed in a fall, crushed under a dirt compactor,…
Weekly Toll: Three Weeks of Death on the Job
Excuse the length of this depressing exercise, but I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and unlike me, workplace…
Weekly Toll: A Few American Workers Who Will Never Come Home
Not a good week to be a worker in Indiana (California and Florida weren’t so hot either.) Construction worker killed…
Weekly Toll: September is Finished, but Workplace Deaths Go On
2 Mississippi police officers dead, suspect in custody after shootout BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — Two police officers were shot and killed…
Weekly Toll: Summer Ends, Workplace Deaths Continue
Man run over while overhauling bus at Chicago Heights junkyard Chicago, IL — A man died after being run over…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workers Reporting for the Final Shift
Death Toll in California’s Carr Wildfire Raises to 7 as Utility Worker Dies CLEARLAKE, Calif. — A utility worker was…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Over the Past Two Weeks
2 firefighters killed as blaze rages in northern California REDDING, CALIF. —The National Park Service reports a second firefighter has…
US to Workers Killed on Small Farms: We Don’t Care
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE — A man who suffered severe burns when a grain elevator exploded in South Sioux City…
OSHA Speaks to Employers, Ignores Workers, About Deaths in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska
Too many workers are dying in the states of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, according to OSHA Region VII, and employers…