“The meat industry and the poultry industry have used the pandemic as an excuse to do things that they've always wanted to do anyway, because they have the mistaken belief [...]
Three anonymous workers at the Maid-Rite plant in Dumore claim the regulator failed to respond to complaints that they were forced to work shoulder-to-shoulder and weren’t provided with masks or [...]
"We put a lot of effort into organizing and gaining support within the hospital,” said Trish Stevenson, a Mission registered nurse who seeks unionization to raise hospital staffing levels to [...]
Nearly $2 million in federal safety fines have been filed against a New Jersey construction contractor, who already was facing $678,053 in earlier fines. - Bloomberg Law Safety is the [...]
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the AFL-CIO's emergency lawsuit against the Trump administration for failing to enact stronger labor protections amid the coronavirus crisis. - The Hill Unions [...]
If you were thinking that Donald Trump and the Federal agencies he oversees are on your side, think again. "For the previous forty-two years, a thousand or so laborers at [...]
Worker protections are critical during the pandemic — yet the Trump administration has issued only voluntary guidance instead of enforceable rules. - The New York Times There should be a [...]
A federal appeals court denied a labor union's petition to force the federal agency tasked with overseeing worker safety to issue an emergency temporary standard that would have addressed infectious [...]
The European Union’s meatpacking industry employs 350,000 people about two-thirds the number of US workers. Yet European meatpackers have had only a fraction of the coronavirus cases that have swept [...]
“It’s frightening, but you have to put on a smile and you go to work because you need the income,” Rosie, who is being identified by a pseudonym because she [...]