A federal investigation into the blaze that killed two Chicago firefighters last December says lack of communication, lack of radios and lack of a vac...
Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011
Do we really want to roll back regulations and look more like China? It's worth considering what environmental and working conditions in China actually are, first.
Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011
Kim Joo hyun's suicide is but the latest deeply disturbing news coming from Samsung's Korean manufacturing plants.
Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011
This is what we know happened. On March 31, 2010, Park Ji-Yeon, who worked at Samsung's On-Yang semiconductor plant in South Korea, died of leukemia at age 23.
Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011
Pictures of oiled pelicans are in the news. Less photogenic and less obvious are potential adverse health impacts to responders or to Gulf Coast commu...
NBC Chicago | Posted 11.23.2011