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Trump’s Worker Safety & Health Budget Again Undermines Worker Safety & Health

Here Are the 10 Worst Attacks on Workers From Trump’s First Year

Leave a Comment / Department of Labor, Uncategorized / By max cyril

January 20th marks the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Since taking office, President Trump has overseen a string of policies that will harm working people and benefit corporations and the rich. Here we present a list of the 10 worst things Congress and Trump have done to undermine pay growth and erode working conditions …

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Trump took credit for airline safety in 2017. What about the surge in coal miner deaths?

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, workplace safety / By max cyril

President Donald Trump is taking credit for what a new study is calling the safest year on record for commercial aviation. The president, however, is refusing to take responsibility for what his mine safety agency is saying was a year where almost twice as many coal mine workers died on the job than the final …

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2017 was a year of eroding workers’ rights

Leave a Comment / Department of Labor / By max cyril

There have been a series of victories for labor rights in recent years. Graduate student workers at private colleges and universities now have the right to unionize. In New York, employers are no longer allowed to ask for an employee’s salary history — a question that often hurts women and people of color. And the Fight for 15 has scored …

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Demanding Respect for Worker Safety

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

In Anacortes, Wash., last week, approximately 200 Tesoro workers began picketing the oil refinery where an explosion incinerated seven of their co-workers five years earlier. Butch Cleve walks that picket line, serving now as strike captain for the USW local union at Tesoro. On the day of the catastrophe in 2010, Cleve walked the coroner to …

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One Year After Rana Plaza, Safety Issues in Walmart Supply Chain Persist

Leave a Comment / workplace safety / By max cyril

On the one-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story factory in Bangladesh—one small component of the multi-billion dollar global garment industry—labor groups around the world are taking to the streets, chanting “never again.” In Bangladesh, family members of the over 1,100 garment workers killed joined former workers and protesters outside the site of the collapse, …

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Uncle Sam’s Hiring Practices

1 Comment / Federal Government / By max cyril

A pair of reports released this week show that the federal government routinely ignores worker safety and labor law violations when awarding contracts to private companies—and that American taxpayers are cheated in the process. The first comes from the staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, which conducted a yearlong investigation …

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A Victory for Silica Dust Exposed Workers?

Leave a Comment / OSHA, worker's rights / By max cyril

Today, after a much-criticized delay on issuing a rule to limit workers’ exposure to cancer-causing silica dust, the Obama administration put forward a proposed rule for public consideration. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) estimates that once the rule is in effect, it could save 700 lives a year and …

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“Total Worker Health” vs. “Wellness” vs. “Well-Being”: Framing Worker Health Issues

Leave a Comment / Total Worker Health / By max cyril

Last month’s “Work, Stress and Health” conference in Los Angeles featured the theme of “Total Worker Health.” This important biennial event is co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP). On its webpage, NIOSH defines Total Worker Health this way: Total Worker Health™ is a …

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