I strongly recommend Michele Simon's article on how Tyson Foods and the USDA have pushed forward drastic increases in chicken production line speeds that would increase the profits of meat companies at the cots of workers' lives: But let’s back up a bit. As Mother...
workplace safety
On April 14, 1975, the Bunker Hill Mining Company in Kellogg, Idaho announced a new policy in response to worries about female workers suffering reproductive problems due to lead exposure..
Not at all surprising that employee wellness program shifts responsibility for unhealthy workplaces off of the employer and onto the employee: “Many of the individual behaviors you are focusing on.
This is an amazing overview of working conditions for 19th and early 20th century glassblowers. An excerpt: The Travelers Insurance agent who wrote “Glass Manufacturing Hazards” for this series agrees that emphysema is not a major problem for glassblowers, despite what one might expect. The...
Lydia DePillis has a typically great story on conditions within the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. Nissan now subcontracts a majority of its employees. Those employees make half as much.
In yesterday's post on the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, Joe B in comments pointed us out to the official MSHA statistics on mine deaths between 1900 and.
On December 30, 1969, Richard Nixon signed the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act into law. The first comprehensive legislation in American history to protect the lives of coal miners, it came only after tens of thousands of deaths in mine accidents and even...
The Dallas Morning News, which has been outstanding on covering the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion and its aftermath, has a strongly damning report on the response to the disaster.
Were one to want to work a job where your life and safety are consistently in danger and where you can live with the constant threat of pollution, one could.
Great news, with one caveat, from the Department of Labor: The Labor Department wants companies to begin filing all workplace injury and illness reports electronically so they are available for anyone in the public to see. The department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will announce...
On October 30, 1837, Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and had his hand crushed.
Great job by IBEW Local 520 in Austin to execute its own undercover investigation of independent contractor fraud among the city's construction industry. Basically, employers are listing workers as independent.