Short Stuff: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Safety and Labor
Most Influential In our Hearts: Despite the global campaign championing Rory O’Neill for the most influential individual in health and safety in Great Britain, odds-on favorite Rory O’Neill fell just...
View ArticleTrench Deaths: Failure to Learn
I’m frustrated. Every few months I go on a tirade about workers who are needlessly suffocated and crushed to death in easily preventable trench collapses. Then I assume the message has been sent...
View ArticleCrippling Rail Strike Looms as Rail Companies Refuse to Address Workers’...
It’s tough to make headlines these days between more news of Trump’s treasonous actions, the aftermath of the Queen’s death and Ukrainian victories over the Russians. But floating to the top of the...
View ArticleLessons of the Averted Rail Strike
And we have an agreement…. I was over at the Department of Labor building yesterday and there were paper signs taped up all over the 2nd (Executive) floor directing outside visitors to various...
View ArticleRail Strike: Which Side Are You On?
When last we discussed employer greed labor problems in the rail industry, President Joe “the most labor-friendly President in American history” Biden had heroically led the cavalry to the rescue...
View ArticleDispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Workplace Violence Back on Congressional Agenda Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) re-introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would require OSHA to issue a...
View ArticleCan Good Journalism Save Workers’ Lives?
Unions are struggling. Workers are intimidated. Congress is comatose. The courts are rigged. OSHA is too small and drastically underfunded. And the Occupational Safety and Health Act is outdated and...
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Union Demands that OSHA Revoke Failing South Carolina OSHA Program
OSHA State Plan states — you can’t live with ’em, you can’t live without ’em. Or can you? A labor union has petitioned federal OSHA to withdraw the state’s authority to run its own OSHA program. The...
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