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Category: Workers’ Rights

How safe are America’s workers? We reveal the hazards employees face in their workplaces, and the protections that often fail them.

Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Death by suffocation under a pile of dirt: Jim Spencer’s on-the-job death shows the weakness of America’s worker-safety laws

by Jim Morris December 14, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Fleecing America’s builders

by Maryam Jameel August 21, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Workers cheated as federal contractors prosper

by Talia Buford and Maryam Jameel April 6, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Senate votes to kill Obama contractor rule

by Maryam Jameel and Elizabeth Hernandez March 7, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

EPA wants to restrict sometimes-deadly paint stripper chemical

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 12, 2017January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk, Worker Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights

Commentary: Update of Toxic Substances Control Act a worthy step that’s long overdue

by Jim Morris May 27, 2016January 7, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Dying depositions

by Jie Jenny Zou March 28, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Length of depositions not widely regulated

by Jie Jenny Zou March 28, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Forty-two years later, OSHA OKs rule protecting workers from silica

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 24, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Compensation program for sick nuclear workers plagued by problems, ombudsman finds

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 21, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Report underlines recent worker hazards at old weapons plants

Avatar photo by Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins January 7, 2016January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Commentary: The unseen toll of workplace disease in America

by Jim Morris December 23, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Shattered victims of ‘La Bestia’ seek help for their desperate countrymen

by Maryam Jameel December 21, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Upended by America’s ‘third wave’ of asbestos disease

by Jim Morris, Maryam Jameel and Eleanor Bell Fox December 17, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Ailing, angry nuclear-weapons workers fight for compensation

Avatar photo by Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins December 11, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Disease victims often shut out of workers’ comp system

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins November 4, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

Common solvent keeps killing workers, consumers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 21, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

‘Samsung is to blame’ for cancers

Avatar photo by Sandra Bartlett September 11, 2015February 20, 2019
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Report: cause for ‘alarm’ on possible work-related causes of breast cancer

by Jim Morris August 6, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

OSHA seeks to reduce exposure to highly useful, highly toxic metal

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins August 5, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Reform in Costa Rica signals new strategy against lethal epidemic

by Sasha Chavkin July 29, 2015January 7, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk, Worker Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights

How government, business and labor can better protect workers

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins and Maryam Jameel July 6, 2015January 7, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

After 44 years, halting progress on workplace disease

by Jim Morris July 6, 2015January 6, 2023
Mark smiles at his mother as she brushes his hair. They're in the bathroom, posters in the background.
Posted inUnequal Risk

The impenetrable world of Mark Flores

by Jim Morris July 1, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

In his own world: Legacy of a toxic workplace

by Maryam Jameel July 1, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

Slow-motion tragedy for American workers

Avatar photo by Jim Morris, Jamie Smith Hopkins and Maryam Jameel June 29, 2015January 6, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk

The campaign to weaken worker protections

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins June 29, 2015February 13, 2023
Posted inUnequal Risk, Worker Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights

Deadly dust: A bricklayer’s job nearly kills him

by Maryam Jameel June 29, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inWorkers’ Rights

Read their stories: How job-related illnesses upended these families’ lives

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins, Jim Morris and Maryam Jameel June 29, 2015January 28, 2022
Posted inUnequal Risk

A tattered safety net for workers

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Yue Qiu and Jamie Smith Hopkins June 29, 2015January 6, 2023

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