Worker safety OSHA silica rule: just a few more months, maybe Apr 16, 2014 Exposed workers are dying, but business groups howl at the expense of prevention
Worker safety Toxic homes leave firefighters fighting cancer as well as flames Apr 15, 2014 Union pushes for protective laws and better decontamination practices
Worker safety OR-FACE Program tracks and investigates work-related deaths Apr 15, 2014 Logging was Oregon’s most fatal industry in 2011
Worker safety Unions remember fallen workers Apr 15, 2014 Thirty-nine workers died in job-related accidents in Oregon in 2013.
Worker safety White House releases OSHA rule on silica, after two-year delay Aug 29, 2013 If implemented, the proposed OSHA rule would protect 2 million exposed workers.
Worker safety Obama Administration quietly smothers rule to protect workers Apr 17, 2013 Silica sickens 3,600 a year, but the White House has halted an OSHA rule 38 years in the making
Worker safety Accident at Thompson Metal Fab takes life of Sheet Metal worker Apr 16, 2013 Michael Carpenter, age 33, was killed on the job March 15.
Worker safety Unions to remember fallen workers Apr 16, 2013 Oregon workers who died on the job last year will be remembered at ceremonies in Portland and Salem
Worker safety PIRG call center pulls the chairs out from under workers Feb 27, 2013 A PIRG call center tosses ergonomic chairs and gives union workers stackable metal chairs to sit on
International Hunger for justice Dec 5, 2012 Hunger strikers demand GM take responsibility for injured workers in Colombia.