One reason to want to make the right choice about who is the Democratic nominee is that Biden has done a lot to help workers and we want that to continue, as opposed to the murderous regime of Donald Trump. As an example, here are...
workplace safety
On July 3, 1913, an auto worker named Charles Weaver lost his eye after a crowbar struck him in the face at work. That was bad enough, but for Weaver.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has become the most successful farmworkers union since the heyday of the United Farm Workers in the late 60s and early 70s (before Cesar Chavez.
Great piece in Workday about what stolen wages really mean in construction--injured workers not getting treatment. In 2022, construction worker José Alfredo Gómez fell two stories from the home he was working on, he says. A group of men on a boat in a nearby...
On November 23, 1891, a miner in Alaska named Patrick Whalen was injured in a mining accident. After a lower court awarded him financial compensation, the Supreme Court stepped in.
On October 20, 1969, a construction worker named Clarence Borel filed suit against eleven companies for asbestos exposure. This key moment in the movement against asbestos is a way to.
This undated photo provided by Panda Bear Films/Latino Public Broadcasting shows stands outside a Dallas construction site. "Building the American Dream," a new VOCES/PBS documentary scheduled to air on most PBS stations on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, examines the effects of this construction boom in...
On March 2, 1893, President Benjamin Harrison signed the Safety Appliance Act. This critical act finally created a modicum of safety on American railroads, mandating air brakes and automatic couplers.
Often, even with unions, one of the only ways to see real improvements in workplace conditions, especially health and safety, is in response to a disaster. For example, maybe the.
You have all heard by now about Alec Baldwin accidentally shooting the director and cinematographer on the set of his current movie project, killing the latter. Turns out this is all about bad workplace safety conditions, union workers walking off the set to protest the...
I am so not happy to have my Oregon time include another of these insane heat waves. Good times. But my work is in air-conditioned archives or wherever else I.
With fire season upon us and the now annual plumes of smoke everywhere, pouring into our lungs and making us forget what summer in the Northwest used to be like,.