Cover-Up At Sago?
   Two different explanations are now being offered for the explosion at the Sago Mine in Central Virginia last year, which killed 12 miners. The United Mine Workers are skeptical of the official...
View ArticleMore Workers Are Fodder For Industry
Is it just me or are we seeing more workers than usual end up on a slab in the morgue? Maybe it’s just that the media is starting to pay more attention to the carnage out there in the workplace–the...
View ArticleDying At Work: A New York Construction Story
For a long time, I’ve been getting the sick feeling that working in construction has been getting even more dangerous. Maybe it’s just that the New York media has paid a bit more attention to the...
View ArticleDying At Work: A New York Construction Story
For a long time, I’ve been getting the sick feeling that working in construction has been getting even more dangerous. Maybe it’s just that the New York media has paid a bit more attention to the...
View ArticleKilling Workers–The Price of Progress?
I actually have been out of town so I wasn’t in NYC when the crane fell on the East Side. But, yesterday, the death toll in the crane collapse reached seven people, six out of seven of them were...
View ArticleKilling Workers–The Price of Progress?
I actually have been out of town so I wasn’t in NYC when the crane fell on the East Side. But, yesterday, the death toll in the crane collapse reached seven people, six out of seven of them were...
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 ArticleYou Can Fire The Commissioner–But The Execs Should Go To Jail
Today there is more news on the deaths of construction workers in New York City. Apparently, our mayor–who never saw a nice, shiny building project he didn’t like no matter if most residents in the...
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 ArticleLock ‘Em Up
I’ve always believed, and have said in the past, that until we start locking up executives who let workers die and be maimed on the job because of unsafe working conditions, the toll will continue to...
View ArticlePeople Think Bloomberg Doesn’t Care About Workers
There is a pretty interesting poll out today in The New York Times about our billionaire mayor. The teflon mayor is still pretty popular–something I’ve never understood. But, people are paying...
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