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Silica
Worker safety
Six questions for labor’s top workplace safety expert
Peg Seminario, the AFL-CIO’s director of occupational safety and health, is a nationally recognized expert on worker safety.
Analysis
LOOKING BACK ON THE OBAMA YEARS
Obama ignored labor on trade and healthcare, and pro-worker reforms came mostly too late.
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
White House releases OSHA rule on silica, after two-year delay
If implemented, the proposed OSHA rule would protect 2 million exposed workers.
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
