Oh fracking. You are so great with your cheap gas prices and profits for fossil fuel companies. Let's just keep going full bore into this technology without adequate research on its impact on people or the land. Earthquakes? It's just Jesus giving you a little...
workplace safety
On the whole, American work has become significantly safer since the establishment of OSHA in 1970. There are two basic reasons for this. First, OSHA made American work safer. Second,.
When we think back to the Reagan Administration, there are so many loathsome characters. Oliver North. John Poindexter. James Watt. Jeane Kirkpatrick. Ed Meese. We could go on and on..
Worker deaths in the energy industry have risen dramatically over the past five years because of the oil and fracking booms. That's not necessary though. Better worker training would cut down on a lot of these accidents, but the companies, not facing harsh penalties from...
When the Wal-Mart truck driver crashed into Tracy Morgan's limousine last week after falling asleep, I wanted to write a short piece on how the trucking companies endanger workers and.
Coal companies are openly cheating the system that monitor for coal dust that leads to black lung, misleading Mine Safety and Health Administration monitoring programs. There are so few good.
Human Rights Watch just released a powerful new report on the abuse of child labor on American tobacco farms. Children as young as the age of 7 are working on these farms, which are structured by individual farmers selling tobacco to the big companies like...
One big victory for corporations in recent years is keeping OSHA fines so low that their trivial cost makes fixing safety problems not worth the effort. Of course this has.
North Dakota, thanks to an oil industry that continues to shirk on workplace safety. According to the AFL-CIO, the most dangerous U.S. state for workers is North Dakota, which the.
On July 29, 2013, a Florida propane plant owned by Blue Rhino, who makes those big propane tanks you can buy at Wal-Mart, exploded. 5 workers were severely burned. OSHA claims Blue Rhino broke 26 workplace safety rules and fined it $73,000. Which is almost...
Wal-Mart's labor practices are really great for workers who want to get hurt on the job. Workers at an Indiana Wal-Mart warehouse allege they were subjected to safety risks including.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a federal complaint against conditions in an Alabama poultry factory. Beatriz Navedo began to feel dizzy as she worked a processing line at.