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Hold the Employers Accountable

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On February 23, 2024
I am 100% on board with this strategy: The union representing meatpacking workers employed by Tony Downs Foods in Madelia, Minn., has a new and historic proposal in response to the plant’s employment of teenagers aged 14 to 17 in illegal and hazardous positions. United Food and...
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Bringing Back Child Labor

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On February 16, 2023
Not enough workers? Well, sure, we could pay more. Or we could open the doors to the millions of immigrants who wish to come and work here. But instead, Republicans are going toward their more favored choice--legalizing child labor. Legislators in Iowa and Minnesota introduced...
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OSHA’s Failures

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On April 9, 2021
The only time the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has even come close to living up to its potential was when Eula Bingham led the agency in the Carter years. Once Reagan got to town, he decimated the agency and it's never recovered, a victim...

The Horrors of Tyson

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On December 21, 2020

ProPublica is a gem. Their reporters continually produce perhaps the best investigative journalism in America. Today's drop is a maddening deep dive in Tyson's utter indifference to the workers dropping.

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