Workplace protections

Deepwater Horizon: Is the CSB Preparing to Retreat on Worker Participation?

The Chemical Safety Board may be preparing to take a significant step backwards in its advocacy for worker participation in preventing chemical facility incidents, including catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In April, 2016 the CSB unanimously approved a 4-volume “Macondo Investigation Report” in response to the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon blowout that killed 11 …

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Donald Trump’s policies will mean more workers dead on the job

Leave a Comment / OSHA / By max cyril

Donald Trump’s rollbacks of worker protections could cost lives. Kathleen Rest, executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists and former acting director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and David Michaels, a public health professor and former assistant secretary of labor, leave no room for doubt on that front. People die …

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Hooray for Albany? Legislature Acts to Boost Working People and the Economy

Leave a Comment / workplace issues / By max cyril

Griping about Albany is always in style: pundits denounce late budgets, lax ethics rules, and special interest shenanigans. And they’ve got a point. But in the end-of-session frenzy, state legislators are also taking far more positive action: raising workplace standards for some of the state’s most exploited workers, many of whom (no surprise) live and …

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Workplace protections

Deepwater Horizon: Is the CSB Preparing to Retreat on Worker Participation?

Donald Trump’s policies will mean more workers dead on the job

Hooray for Albany? Legislature Acts to Boost Working People and the Economy

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