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Worker safety

Occupational safety and health. Workplace toxins. Ergonomics. Asbestos. Hearing loss. Safety.

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

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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.

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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.

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