Workplace Safety

Dave Jamieson

Judge Rules Against SeaWorld Over Whale Trainer's Death

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Killer Whales, Seaworld Whales Lawsuit, Labor Department, Seaworld Whales, Seaworld, Dawn Brancheau, Seaworld Death, Workplace Safety, Osha, Killer Whale, Seaworld Osha, Green News

"Are the emotions inspired by the grandeur of humans interacting with killer whales worth the dangers created by the interactions?" That was the qu...

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Dave Jamieson

Feds Tell Hyatt To Lighten Housekeepers' Load

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Labor, Video, Workers, Hyatt Hotels, Chicago, Housekeeping, Housekeepers, Ergonomics, Unite Here, Workplace Safety, Osha, Labor Unions, Hyatt, Business News

After performing a series of hotel inspections, the federal agency that oversees workplace safety has sent a rare letter to the Hyatt Corporation reco...

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Working Kids... to Disability and Death

Bruce Lesley | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Department of Labor, Dolores Huerta, Agribusiness, Workplace Safety, Child Labor Laws, Farming, CARE Act, Labor Laws, Agricultural Policy, Impact News
Bruce Lesley

According to a report in the Journal of Pediatrics, approximately 26,650 youth are injured on farms every year. Of these injuries, more than 3,700 require hospitalization. Now, passing the CARE Act is even more important.

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A Rape Victim's Search for Justice

Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Pornography, Lawyers, Rape, Security, Sexual Assault, Lawsuit, Workplace Safety, Miami Crime, Miami News
Spencer Aronfeld

The rape of a 27-year-old Miami woman while working highlights the legal obligation that Florida businesses have to provide a safe environment not only for customers but for their employees.

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Car Wash Workers Win Landmark Rights

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Immigrants Rights, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Car Wash Unionization, Car Wash Union, Unionization, Carwasheros, Workplace Safety, Union, Car Wash, Car Wash Union Rights, Workers Rights, Politics News

Workers at a Southern California car wash won a union contract Tuesday, making them the first unionized car-wash employees in the country. The Los ...

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Dave Jamieson

Perry’s Political Rise Began With Opposition To Pesticide Regulations

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: United Farm Workers, Farm Workers, Environmental Protection Agency, Farming, Pesticides, Video, Karl Rove, Workers, Jim Hightower, Agriculture, Elections 2012, Environment, Workplace Safety, Rick Perry, Rick Perry Pesticides, Politics News

Jason Cherkis contributed reporting to this story. WASHINGTON -- More than two decades ago, there was a bitter fight within Texas' agricultural com...

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Dave Jamieson

Roofers Now At Forefront Of The Regulatory Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Video, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Dennis Kucinich, Labor Department, Roofers, Department of Labor, 112th Congress, Regulation, Construction, Reid Ribble, National Association of Home Builders, Workplace Safety, Tim Walberg, Osha, Roof Falls, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Republicans claim the Obama administration is choking small business with burdensome workplace regulations. Democrats say the few new re...

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Sweatshops in America

Taylor Leake | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Amazon.com, Workplace, Worker Safety, Worker's Rights, Workplace Safety, Impact News
Taylor Leake

The stories the Morning Call heard and published are pretty disturbing. This warehouse is, quite literally, a sweatshop.

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Dave Jamieson

GOP Targets Rule That Protects Rooftop Workers From Falling

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Msha, Video, Budget Cuts, Budget, Department of Labor, Workplace Safety, Worker Safety, Osha, House Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In addition to blocking President Obama's health care law and slashing funding for job training, the budget plan presented by House Repu...

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Dave Jamieson

After Long Delay, White House Moves On Child Labor Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Farming, White House, Workplace, Child Labor, Agriculture, Office of Management and Budget, Workplace Safety, Barack Obama, Monsanto, Child Labor Laws, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- After much delay, the White House has finally released a proposed rule that would update child labor regulations in agricultural work. P...

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Dave Jamieson

Despite Teen Deaths On Farms, Child Labor Rules Stalled At White House

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Farming, White House, Workplace, Child Labor, Agriculture, Office of Management and Budget, Workplace Safety, Barack Obama, Monsanto, Child Labor Laws, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Last week, two 17 year olds were critically injured in Oklahoma when they were pulled into a grain augur while on the job. Responders ha...

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Anniversary of a Workplace Shooting

Janice Harper | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Hartford Distributors Shooting, Mobbing, Workplace Safety, Workplace Discrimination, Omar Thornton, Bullying, Crime News
Janice Harper

One year ago this week, Omar Thornton, a delivery truck driver, methodically shot and killed eight of his co-workers, wounded several others, then killed himself. Was he bullied in the workplace, mobbed to the point of mass murder?

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He Was Abusive But the Company Didn't Want to Let Him Go

Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Employee Reviews, Managing Problem Employees, Employee Management, Workplace Safety, Managing Employees, Workplace Conduct, Workplace Behavior, Business News
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone

Machiavelli's theory of "the end justifies the means" may sound interesting when you're sitting in a college lecture hall, but it has a hollow ring when you have to spend 8-10 hours a day around an employee that is bullying everyone.

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Deaths and safety violations found within OSHA's 'model' workplaces

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Workplace Safety, Workplace, Osha, Iwatch News, Green News
The Center for Public Integrity

By Chris Hamby, iWatch NewsPart of a series,"Model Workplaces, Imperiled Workers,"by the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News. The first article ...

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'Model workplaces' not always so safe amidst deaths and avoidable accidents

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Factory, Workplace Safety, Factory Workers, Osha, Politics News
The Center for Public Integrity

Despite deaths and avoidable accidents, companies stay in OSHA's 'voluntary protection' clubBy Chris Hamby, iWatch NewsFirst in a series, "Model Workp...

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The Lesson We Should Really Take From the DSK-Sofitel Story

Ludy Green, Ph.D | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rape, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sofitel, Dominique Strauss Kahn Sexual Assault, Dominique Strauss Kahn, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex Scandal, Women in the Workplace, Workplace Discrimination, Workplace Safety, Sexual Assault, Business News
Ludy Green, Ph.D

The Hotel Sofitel/Strauss-Kahn case must serve a higher purpose than journalistic sensationalism, it must serve to remind all corporations of the need to develop and effectively implement workplace domestic violence policies.

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Lila Shapiro

The Decline in Workplace-Related Deaths

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Occupational-Safety-and-Health-Act, Workplace Deaths, Afl-Cio, Obama Administration, Death-on-the-Job, Workplace Safety, Osha, Worker Safety, Business News

NEW YORK -- The number of workplace-related deaths and injuries decreased slightly in 2009 according to the nation's largest labor union, but that's n...

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The Cost of Construction

Flavia Colgan | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Cost of Construction, Gulf Oil Spill, Workplace Safety, Entertainment News
Flavia Colgan

Cost of Construction investigates a pattern of hazardous deregulations, overturned violations, and dangerous negligence at the highest corporate and governmental levels exposing a national safety system in crisis.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 100 Years Later

Eric T. Schneiderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Eric T. Schneiderman, Social Justice, Attorney General Schneiderman, Workplace Safety, New York Attorney General, New York News
Eric T. Schneiderman

The lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire have been lost on many of my colleagues in government. In Wisconsin, we are seeing a radical assault on employee protections.

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New Study Uncovers Wage Theft and Workplace Abuse in the Garden State

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, Wage Theft, Workplace, New Jersey, Wages, New York State Legislature, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Workplace Safety, Seton Hall, Day Laborers, Undocumented Workers, Politics News
Afton Branche

For day laborers, finding work too often means accepting less than minimum wage, forgoing safety equipment, or enduring abuse by crooked employers. A ...

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Obama's Regulatory Enforcement Shows That Government Can Play a Positive Role

Matt Madia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environment, Public Health, Regulation, OMB Watch, Workplace Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Politics News
Matt Madia

Everyone benefits when regulations work properly. So despite the attacks from powerful special interests, the Obama administration must soldier on. The alternative is much worse

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Will GOP Victory Gut OSHA and Kill More Workers on the Job?

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Obama, Republicans, Workplace Safety, Chameber of Commerce, Democrats, Osha, Business News
Art Levine

A GOP-led House would -- spurred by its Chamber of Commerce paymasters -- certainly slash enforcement funds even as OSHA's current dedicated leadership is facing steep obstacles in achieving reform.

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What will it take to make every workplace as safe as the corner office?

Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, Occupational Health and Safety, Labor, Jobs Creation, Labor Day, Workplace Safety, Osha, Green News
Elizabeth Grossman

Labor Day, its picnics, parades, and speeches have now come and gone. But as I wrote on The Pump Handle, despite the vast improvements in workplace sa...

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Hate Crimes Are Just One Threat Facing New York City Cabbies

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxis, Manhattan, Ground Zero Mosque, Labor, Terrorism, Violence, 9/11, World Trade Center, Muslim, Workplace Safety, Unions, September 11th, New York, Politics News
Michelle Chen

The daily hazards of the job pose a more systemic threat to the livelihoods, and often, the very lives, of cab drivers. Sharif's brutal encounter is the latest in a string of violent incidents involving cabbies.

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Fighting for Workers This Labor Day

Sec. Hilda Solis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Green Jobs, Workers, Labor Day, Economy, Labor Department, Jobs, Workplace Safety, Hilda Solis, President Obama, Politics News
Sec. Hilda Solis

It's become a tradition for labor secretaries to use Labor Day to speak on the status of the American worker. Some have made remarks from podiums. Others have testified on Capitol Hill. I want to talk directly to you -- the American worker.

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