OSHA
United Food and Commercial Workers: OSHA’s Smithfield fine ‘a slap on the wrist’
September 14, 2020WASHINGTON—The Trump regime’s $13,494 fine against the infamous Smithfield pork production plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.—a plant where company failure to protect workers against the coronavirus infected at least 1,300 of them and endangered the whole...
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Meatpackers sue OSHA demanding virus safety enforcement at Maid-Rite plant
July 24, 2020The workers said in their lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg that even though OSHA has known about conditions at the plant since early April, it’s done nothing.
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Former OSHA chief: U.S. sitting on protocol to fight coronavirus
February 4, 2020Michaels says plan developed to fight airborne viruses under Obama could be implemented immediately.
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Unions ask OSHA to protect workers as extreme heat spreads
July 23, 2018“We attended the funerals of too many California farm workers who needlessly died from extreme heat,” says Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez.
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Fatal on-the-job injuries rose by seven percent in 2016
December 27, 2017Growing economic sectors which receive little attention and oversight, such as health care and food services, saw jumps in death rates on the job.
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