Northwest Labor Press is an independent union-supported newspaper founded in 1900. Our print version is mailed twice a month to about 45,000 members of over three dozen local unions in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Our online version has been maintained here since 1997.
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Crystalline silica
Worker safety
DEADLY DUST: OSHA’s new silica rule will save lives
The silica rule covering 2 million construction workers is the most significant OSHA move in decades.
Worker safety
Federal OSHA’s Silica Neverland
Six years after Obama took office, workers are still waiting for protection from deadly dust.
Worker safety
OSHA silica rule: just a few more months, maybe
Exposed workers are dying, but business groups howl at the expense of prevention
Worker safety
Obama Administration quietly smothers rule to protect workers
Silica sickens 3,600 a year, but the White House has halted an OSHA rule 38 years in the making
