UFCW and AFL-CIO: Working Together on Safety
This was interesting. Yesterday, the AFL-CIO and UFCW issued a joint press release about a victory in a long battle: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will finally require–drumroll,...
View ArticleFalling From The Sky: More Construction Workers Die
Like a lot of workers, construction workers aren’t seen by most people going to and from work, home or whatever else they happen to be doing–until a construction worker dies some horrible death....
View ArticleThe Deadly Dangers of Dust
You may recall that 13 workers died on February 7th in an explosion at a sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia. Today, The Wall Street Journal has a fine story looking at the disaster and the...
View ArticleCorporate Terrorism Doesn’t Rate
I pointed out a few days ago that there was zero — and I mean ZERO — mention after the explosion in West, Texas that the plant was not unionized. And it points to a deeper problem: when it comes to...
View ArticleEpisode 28: Die or Organize!
People die at work, and people revolt and organize. All in sharp focus the last few days, I looked at the toll at work of sick, injured and killed workers—and why we mark Workers Memorial Day every...
View ArticleEpisode 64: Progressives Reach For the Governor’s Mansion, And a Heartland...
I continue my on-going chats with solid progressive candidates all across the country. I chat with Abdul El-Sayed, who is vying in Michigan to be the first Muslim-American elected as governor in the...
View ArticleEpisode 124: Here’s How We Fund “Medicare For All” & The Rest; Work Is Not Safe
I offer a public service to progressives—and to those, like me, who are irritated by progressive leaders who don’t know how to talk about specifics when it comes to policy, and just spew out...
View ArticleEpisode 161: An ICE-Company Cover Up Of Workplace Deaths in NOLA?;...
Shut your damn mouth or be deported. That’s basically the upshot of what happened to Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, who wanted to tell the truth about the collapse of the under-construction Hard Rock...
View ArticleEpisode 164: Death At Work: The Numbers Skyrocket; Hoadley Looks To Dethrone...
Most people, when they walk out the door to go to work, don’t think, “damn, I’m going to get killed today or seriously ill with a chronic disease”. Yes, if you work in a mine or on a construction...
View ArticleEpisode 199: We Have A Price For A Worker’s Life: A Few Thousand Bucks;...
What’s a worker’s life worth? To you and me, it’s priceless. Capitalism, though, doesn’t see it that way—a worker’s life is a cost of doing business, a life easily disposable when it comes to making...
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