It's remarkable to me that basically no one cares about the lives of the people involved in producing our meat. I went into this in some detail in Out of Sight, but compared to the other issues I raised in that book, it didn't get...
workplace safety
United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard has a good piece on the dangers of violence on the job that health care workers face. Working in a hospital, nursing home or ambulance.
On March 20, 1991, the Supreme Court decided the case of United Auto Workers v. Johnson Controls. In this case, the Court, unanimously but with factions, held that private sector.
Upton Sinclair wrote his 1906 famous book to expose the horrible lives of slaughterhouse workers. But, much to his disappointment, Americans focused upon the horrible meat they were ingesting and didn't much care about the workers he described or the socialist politics he hoped to...
Donald Trump may like to play in a truck, but he certainly does not have truckers' interests at heart: According to the Department of Labor (DOL) Statistics, trucking is one.
ICE is a government stormtrooper force engaging in ethnic cleansing. It's employees should be publicly exposed and shamed. Many of them are fascists and the rest should resign to separate themselves from that fascism. ICE should be abolished entirely and we need to start over,...
While we are rightfully focusing on the health care front, the GOP war on the poor has many facets. One of them is ensuring a maximum exposure to toxicity by.
The daily outrage from Trump's minions: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will delay implementation of an Obama-era chemical safety rule for nearly two years while it reassesses the necessity of.
One of the thousands who donate their fingers to the Lumber Trust. The Trust compensated all with poverty and some with bullets on November 5, 1916. On June 2, 1920, the Smith-Fess Act, better known as the Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Act, passed Congress. This law...
Triangle Fire Day is such a happy time. Good thing we have learned so much and we treat our workers with respect, allow them to work in safe workplaces, give.
Above: The Republican Workplace Safety Plan The Republican Party's ideology toward the American working class is crystal clear, not that they have tried to hide it. President Trump and congressional.