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Death On The Job report: Years of progress, long way to go
May 5, 2021The rate of decline of deaths stalled under Trump but is expected to improve now.
Read moreWorkers Memorial Day: Nobody knows how many workers COVID-19 has killed
April 28, 2021National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, along with the Biden administration’s OSHA, wants to force bosses to protect workers with new emergency standards.
Read moreOn Workers Memorial Day, honor those lost with a PRO Act win
April 27, 2021April 28th was chosen as Workers Memorial Day because the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was born on that date in 1970.
Read moreUnited 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...
Read moreMeatpackers 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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