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 falling freight, forklifts on fire, and frostbite – and then illegally fired for organizing in...
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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.
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.
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. The company decided to require sterilization of all women working in its smelter. This was...
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.
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 money as Nissan employees doing the same work and do not qualify for benefits. Workers...
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.
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 from the state of Texas. Which is nothing. Nothing has changed. This is the state’s...
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.