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Racial Harassment, Noose Cost Alabama Cement Plant $400,000
23/02/2012 Comments Off on Racial Harassment, Noose Cost Alabama Cement Plant $400,000
The dark days of old South apparently still live on at Ready Mix USA’s plant in Montgomery, Ala. A noose was allegedly displayed at the Ready Mix worksite in Montgomery. African-American workers were the subject of derogatory racial language, including Ku Klux Klan references, used by a direct Ready Mix supervisor and manager and that […]
Continue reading …AllGov.com – Outsourcing Death In The Afghanistan War
16/02/2012 Comments Off on AllGov.com – Outsourcing Death In The Afghanistan War
During the past decade, working as an employee of a U.S. military contractor in Afghanistan has been one of the more dangerous ways to make a living. Private contractors have been front and center in the U.S. military’s involvement Afghanistan, just as they were in both wars in Iraq. Contractors have been responsible for supplying […]
Continue reading …OSHA Fines Jennie-O Turkey After Worker’s Arm Amputated
15/02/2012 Comments Off on OSHA Fines Jennie-O Turkey After Worker’s Arm Amputated
After losing an arm below the shoulder when a turkey-gutting machine accidentally turned on, a worker at Jennie-O plant in Barron, Wis., had to walk down a flight of 25 stairs and 200 feet across the production floor before reaching a co-worker for assistance. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited […]
Continue reading …By The Numbers: Life And Death Working At Foxconn
31/01/2012 Comments Off on By The Numbers: Life And Death Working At Foxconn
From ProPublica: An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture some of the world’s most popular consumer electronics. As well as working with companies like Dell, Motorola, Nokia and Hewlett-Packard, Foxconn assembles popular […]
Continue reading …Second Helping: Three More Night Shift Survival Tips
30/01/2012 Comments Off on Second Helping: Three More Night Shift Survival Tips
Here are three more tips that aren’t really about nutrition but may also help if you work the night shift.Time your exercise.Regular exercise can do a lot to increase your energy and regulate your body’s rhythms despite an odd work schedule. Take full advantage of the stimulating effect of exercise by scheduling your workout before […]
Continue reading …VPP Failure? OSHA Lacks Proof Voluntary Protection Programs Work
01/12/2011 Comments Off on VPP Failure? OSHA Lacks Proof Voluntary Protection Programs Work
By Chris Hamby, iWatchNews, Center for Public Integrity — Almost 30 years after workplace safety regulators decided to encourage a select number of companies to police themselves, the basic question – does it work? – remains unanswered. Supporters can’t prove that a softer, voluntary approach is more effective at making workplaces safer. Some critics suspect the concept […]
Continue reading …Database of Fatal Accidents Incomplete OSHA Acknowledges
01/12/2011 Comments Off on Database of Fatal Accidents Incomplete OSHA Acknowledges
By Chris Hamby, iWatch News,Center for Public Integrity — At an Ohio chemical plant, an explosion launched pieces of metal that struck and killed a worker. At a Pennsylvania steel mill, equipment crushed a worker to death. At an Oklahoma oil refinery, a flash fire fatally burned a worker. Each death occurred at a plant deemed a […]
Continue reading …An OSHA of Contradictions: ‘Model Workplaces’ Not Always So Safe
01/12/2011 Comments Off on An OSHA of Contradictions: ‘Model Workplaces’ Not Always So SafeBy Chris Hamby, iWatch News First in a series, “Model Workplaces, Imperiled Workers,” by the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News In October 2005, a spark triggered an explosion at a Tropicana juice processing plant in Bradenton, Fla. Flames engulfed mechanic Rob Hackley and burned a co-worker who came to his aid. For weeks, Hackley clung […]
Continue reading …OSHA Cites Animal Feed Processor in Worker’s Fatal Fall in Silo
28/11/2011 Comments Off on OSHA Cites Animal Feed Processor in Worker’s Fatal Fall in Silo
Following the May 11 death of an employee who was engulfed by cotton seed stored in a silo, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Utica, N. Y., animal feed processor Harbor Point Mineral Products for 21 violations of workplace safety standards. An inspection by OSHA’s Syracuse Area Office found that employees had not been […]
Continue reading …Repealing Florida’s Anti-Dwarf Tossing Law Means Jobs For Dwarfs
07/10/2011 Comments Off on Repealing Florida’s Anti-Dwarf Tossing Law Means Jobs For Dwarfs
From Miami New Times: Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, is tired of Florida’s Big Brother government standing in the way of people getting jobs. Jobs that include being tossed around by drunk dudes specifically, so he’s on a mission to repeal the state’s two-decade-old ban on dwarf tossing. “I’m on a quest to seek and destroy […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
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- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill