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 from? How does it become leather? Of course you don't ask yourself that question. You...
workplace safety
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,.
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.
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, and probably more important, most dangerous labor in the United States has either been mechanized...
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.
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 drivers through their horrible labor practices. But I didn't have time to do the research...
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.
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 a predictable cost: Twenty-eight-year-old Daniel Collazo was nearly done with his shift cleaning machines at...
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.