NIOSH Upholds Workplace Safety. Trump Dismembering It
https://truthout.org/articles/niosh-upheld-workplace-safety-for-millions-in-the-us-trump-is-dismembering-it

* destroying National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
* capitalist blood sacrifice

#NIOSH #OHS #OSHA #WorkerSafety #OccupationalSafety #OccupationalHygiene #WorkersRights

#Trump #Christofascism #billionaires #oligarchy #transgenocide

#TransLivesMatter
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Collaborate/advocate/educate/resist
#unionize #solidarity #socialism #ecosocialism

Social democracy
https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/social_democracy.pdf

'The AFL-CIO & 3 top former OSHA officials fear the possibility of Elon Muskaccessing unredacted whistleblower files that OSHA maintains. There's currently dozens of open OSHA cases across Tesla, SpaceX, & The Boring Company.

Companies tied to Elon Musk have dozens of workplace health & safety cases open at OSHA. Union leaders & former OSHA officials are concerned.

#Musk #Corruption #DOGE #OSHA #Public Safety #WorkerSafety #WorkersRights #Union #Tesla #SpaceX #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-osha-whistleblower-files/

Today in Labor History April 5, 2010: Twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. In 2015, Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was convicted of a misdemeanor for conspiring to willfully violate safety standards and was sentenced to one year in prison. He was found not guilty of charges of securities fraud and making false statements. Investigators also found that the U.S. Department of Labor and its Mine Safety and Health Administration were guilty of failing to act decisively, even after Massey was issued 515 citations for safety violations at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2009, prior to the deadly explosion.

So, the U.S. Dept of Labor, back when the U.S. staffed and funded its regulatory agencies, allowed a murderous boss to get away with 515 safety violations, resulting in the deaths of 29 miners, without any consequences for its bosses. And the courts gave the murderous CEO of Massey Energy a year in a Country Club prison for those same 29 worker deaths. But they’re gonna try Luigi Mangione for first-degree murder and seek the death penalty because he supposedly killed a murderous white-collar crook?

As they say, there is no Justice for the working-class; but there’s plenty of “Just Us” for the wealthy, as in court rulings just for them; subsidies and tax right-offs just for them; elite clubs and resorts just for them; and the right, just for them, to kill their workers and consumers in the pursuit of profits.

"Republicans just introduced a bill that would eliminate safety regulations and standards for workers.

This will get workers killed, and encourage corporations to gamble with their workers’ safety to increase profits.

There’s a reason corporations donate so much to politicians."
-M D'Arrigo

They want to “nullify” #OSHA.

Watch these companies lie through their teeth. And the employer, of course, later will be firing people if they get sick or cancer from breathing in all of the smoke.

Amid fires, a fine line between work and well-being

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-01-11/how-workplaces-are-dealing-with-los-angeles-fires

ON THE UNREASONABLE DANGERS OF WORKING FOR ELON MUSK

A thread...

H5N1 found in wastewater in Arizona and Hawaii, yet no cattle outbreaks in either state? How'd it get there? Scientists still trying to figure it out.

Meanwhile, just like early in the Covid pandemic, who are the most at risk? Front line workers, mostly low income and immigrant workers in food production. And just like with Covid, we're doing little to protect them? No PPE. No mass testing.

Explosion at Tsingshan Holding Group's nickel processing complex at Morowali, Indonesia, kills worker. ‘Production first, safety later.'

#WorkerSafety

https://www.ft.com/content/56013ee9-f456-4646-895c-aeb65a685f85

Worker killed in explosion at Hanwha Ocean's shipyard on Geoje Island - union calls for arrest of CEO under law that allows for jail time for executives who fail to take sufficient safety precautions.

#WorkerSafety

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/01/129_367010.html

Three migrant Bangladeshi workers die in fire at Rulewave Logistics Malaysia and Pentachem factories at Southern Industrial and Logistics Clusters in Johor, Malaysia.

#workersafety

https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2024/10/1117760/inferno-silc-fire-engulfs-4-factories-3-workers-sustain-1st-degree-burns

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/us/helene-flooding-impact-plastics-lawsuit/index.html

Family of factory worker who died in Helene flooding files wrongful death suit against employer

#NoBillionaires #impactplastics #helene
#wagetheft #livingwage #workersafety #workersrights

Widow of UPS delivery driver who died last year during Texas heat wave calls for safer conditions for workers as temperatures spike. Company was fined $66,000 for failing to ensure he had access to medical care.

#WorkerSafety

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/widow-of-ups-driver-who-collapsed-on-the-job-calls-for-better-worker-protections-in-extreme-heat/

Today in Labor History September 6, 1869: The Avondale fire killed 110 miners, including several juveniles under the age of 10. It led to the first mine safety law in Pennsylvania. Avondale is near Plymouth, Pennsylvania. The Susquehanna River flows nearby. The mine had only one entrance, in violation of safety recommendations at the time. In the wake of the fire, thousands of miners joined the new Workingmen’s Benevolent Association, one of the nation’s first large industrial unions (and precursor to the United Mineworkers and the Knights of Labor). My book, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” opens with this fire. My main character, Mike Doyle, joins the bucket brigade trying to put out the flames shooting out of the mineshaft.

You can get a copy of Anywhere But Schuylkill from any of these indie retailers:
https://www.keplers.com/
https://www.greenapplebooks.com/
https://christophersbooks.com/
https://boundtogether.org//

Or from https://www.amazon.com/Anywhere-but-Schuylkill-Michael-Dunn-ebook/dp/B0CJVW1BP2

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #coal #avondale #disaster #workplacedeaths #workersafety #union #historicalfiction #novel #books #author #writer #anywherebutschuylkill #mining #childlabor @bookstadon

‘You feel like you’re suffocating’: Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shade | Florida | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/aug/14/you-feel-like-youre-suffocating-florida-outdoor-workers-are-collapsing-in-the-heat-without-water-and-shade

Worker at Intel’s D1X factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, sues company for $550,000 over injuries from exposure to toxic chemicals in April 2022. "Symptoms in his nose, lungs & mouth that he describes as feeling like they were ‘on fire,’

#WorkerSafety

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/04/intel-contractor-sues-for-550000-says-toxic-chemicals-in-oregon-factory-cost-him-his-sense-of-taste-and-smell.html