Among the people most impacted by climate change are farmworkers. That a worker died in the recent Northwest heat wave is entirely expected. Sebastian Francisco Perez, a Guatemalan immigrant to Marion
Under Trump, ICE became a catch all agency for intimidation of people of color and the poor. A senior political appointee from the Trump administration still employed at a federal safety agency invest
These are the graves of Thomas Hatton, Lewis Davies, and other victims of the Avondale Colliery coal mine fire. What I’m going to do here is paste my Labor History on Avondale with some addition
On January 2, 2006, a coal mine near Sago, West Virginia exploded. Thirteen miners were trapped inside and only one of those survived the two days it took to get the miners out. Yet another example of
On April 27, 1978, a concrete cooling tower at a power plant being constructed on Willow Island in West Virginia, collapsed, killing 51 workers. This was one of the largest industrial disasters of the
Another day, another worker murdered by the meat industry. A Eufaula man was killed Tuesday afternoon in an industrial accident at the chicken processing plant in Baker Hill, according to Barbour Coun
On October 26, 1924, the first of five workers died in less than a week at Standard Oil’s New Jersey Bayway TEL works from lead exposure in making leaded gasoline. Lead has been part of human econom
Supply chains exist to maximize profit for western corporations. The easiest ways to increase profit is to lower labor costs and create environmental hazards. Supply chains do this by outsourcing all