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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: UWUA Members Take Control of Workplace Safety
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 …
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How Starbucks Workers Won in Mesa
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 …
Workers Say They Breathe Polluted Air at “Green” Insulation Facility
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 …
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5 Safety Tips To Remember When Managing A Construction Site
One of the places where one cannot err on the side of caution is at a construction site. Danger looms around a construction site. Falls, hits from dropping items, the collapse of the edifice, and slipping off are all potential hazards of construction sites. Although unforeseen circumstances make it impossible to declare a construction site …
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This Amazon Grocery Runner Has Risked Her Job to Fight for Better Safety Measures
This article is part of a series on Amazon workers produced in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Courtenay Brown spends her day making grocery runs for others in a football-field-sized maze of narrow aisles and refrigerated enclaves. At the Amazon Fresh unit in a Newark, New Jersey fulfillment center, she works on the outbound ship dock, helping …
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How Worker Safety Starts With Facilities Construction And Intelligent Design
Worker safety is a top concern for facilities everywhere. While safety training and precautions can go a long way towards ensuring workers’ safety, safety really begins with a facility’s initial design and construction. If a facility is haphazardly designed, no amount of safety training can combat that. But what sort of design decisions make a …
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Fire Departments, Airports and Military Bases May Be More Toxic to Workers Than You Think
Drinking water supplies for at least six million Americans contain toxic industrial chemicals at levels that exceed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recommended safety limit. This number is likely an underestimate since the information available through the EPA does not include data for about one-third of Americans—those 100 million or more people who rely …
This New Rule Will Make Information About On-the-Job Injuries at Dangerous Workplaces Public
More than 3 million U.S. workers suffer a workplace injury or illness every year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—numbers that are thought to be significantly underreported. But astonishingly, little or no information about at which workplaces these occur is made available to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the agency responsible for enforcing U.S. workplace …
U.S. To Increase Worker Protection From Deadly Silica Dust for First Time in More Than 40 Years
For the first time in 45 years, the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is poised to increase safety standards for worker exposure to the silica dust that can cause deadly and incurable lung disease. A rule that would cut in half the amount of silica dust to which most workers could be exposed—and limit levels …
