workplace safety
Refinery workers with the United Steelworkers have now been on strike since February 1. The main issue in the strike is workplace safety. Let's take a refresher on the terrible.
On March 10, 1925, the New York Times first reported the story of the so-called Radium Girls, as U.S. Radium Company employee Marguerite Carlough had sued her employer for $75,000.
Trish Kahle has an interesting piece at Jacobin on the potential for alliance between striking United Steelworkers' refinery workers and environmentalists over safety conditions at the plants. Certainly environmentalists like.
In the 1910s, as workers around the nation were organizing and striking with greater militancy, employers and the government finally began to pay attention to their plight. That certainly didn't.
This is why unionizing Walmart is so important and why just ballot measures for the minimum wage isn't enough to improve the lives of workers. Unions are about dignity and.
Good call from Obama's OSHA: Beginning Jan. 1, OSHA rules will go into effect that may reveal higher daily death and injury counts on the job. Although most workplaces are.
Jason Motlagh and Josh Eidelson have an excellent piece up on the horrors of the Bangladeshi leather industry. When you buy leather goods, where do you think the leather comes.
The coal industry has never cared about keeping workers alive. It still doesn't. And even when the companies are fined for their horrible workplace safety, some just refuse to pay,.