Whether you work an office job that requires international travel or you’re a pilot, trucker, or any other professional who has to fly or drive all over, your well-being needs to be prioritized.
The issues Damar Hamlin’s near-death and ongoing recovery raise are very much not over.
One of the biggest challenges those struggling with addiction face is taking leave from their workplace.
In response to public scrutiny of high injury rates and growing worker organizing efforts at its facilities, Amazon recently published a report on its workplace health and safety record titled “Delivered with Care.” In this blog post, we sort out fact and fiction in Amazon’s key arguments in that report. False Claim #1: Amazon’s injury rates should be …
Fact-Checking Amazon’s Bogus Workplace Health and Safety Claims Read More »
At 43 and 45 years old, husband and wife farmers Angie and Wenceslaus Provost, Jr., hope they live to see age 70. They don’t fear terminal illness or a farm accident that could consign them to an early grave. Instead, they fear stress could do them in. Years of trying to protect family land from encroaching banks and government agencies have worn …
“It tears you apart mentally and physically”: The Health Crisis Afflicting Black Farmers Read More »
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. While COVID-19 has made safety and personal protective equipment topics of discussion worldwide, workplace hazards …
Service + Solidarity Spotlight: UWUA Members Take Control of Workplace Safety Read More »
Starbucks Workers United (SWU) won its third store election February 28 in Mesa, Arizona. The vote was an overwhelming 25-3, with three additional contested ballots, despite heavy anti-union pressure from the company and in a state with only 5.4 percent union density. “We led with kindness and care and just did our jobs in the …
A conversation with Chaz Rynkiewicz, vice president of Laborers Local 79. With Laborers Local 79 leading the charge, union demolition workers, construction workers, carpenters, bricklayers, and more have rallied multiple times in the past month outside the Chelsea Terminal Warehouse in New York City to protest the mishandling of workers’ pensions and the exploitation, union busting, wage …
Unions Stand With Exploited Immigrants Demolition Workers in NYC Read More »
Kingspan employees in Santa Ana, California are demanding improved health protections—and a fair process to organize. As the acceptance of climate change becomes increasingly commonplace, more and more companies will be created or adapted to ?“fight” or ?“solve” it — or, at the very least, minimize its effects. Kingspan Group, which began as an engineering and contracting business …
Workers Say They Breathe Polluted Air at “Green” Insulation Facility Read More »
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, which represents many grocery workers, is … not happy about the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’ (CDC) new guidance that vaccinated people can go unmasked indoors. Food and retail workers, after all, have been contending all along with people who refused rules about masks, and are now guaranteed to have …
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
