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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

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