Workers’ Rights Archives – Page 3 of 7 – Center for Public Integrity

The EPA planned to ban a deadly paint-stripping chemical. Will it follow through?

by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 26, 2018January 6, 2023

Workers’ 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

Workers’ Rights

Fleecing America’s builders

by Maryam Jameel August 21, 2017January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

Workers cheated as federal contractors prosper

by Talia Buford and Maryam Jameel April 6, 2017January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

Senate votes to kill Obama contractor rule

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

EPA wants to restrict sometimes-deadly paint stripper chemical

by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 12, 2017January 6, 2023

Unequal 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

Workers’ Rights

Dying depositions

by Jie Jenny Zou March 28, 2016January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

Length of depositions not widely regulated

by Jie Jenny Zou March 28, 2016January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

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

by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 24, 2016January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

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

by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 21, 2016January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

Report underlines recent worker hazards at old weapons plants

by Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins January 7, 2016January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

Commentary: The unseen toll of workplace disease in America

by Jim Morris December 23, 2015January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

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

by Maryam Jameel December 21, 2015January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

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

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

Ailing, angry nuclear-weapons workers fight for compensation

by Jim Morris and Jamie Smith Hopkins December 11, 2015January 6, 2023

Disease victims often shut out of workers’ comp system

by Jamie Smith Hopkins November 4, 2015January 6, 2023

Common solvent keeps killing workers, consumers

by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 21, 2015January 6, 2023

Workers’ Rights

‘Samsung is to blame’ for cancers

by Sandra Bartlett September 11, 2015February 20, 2019

Workers’ Rights

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

by Jim Morris August 6, 2015January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

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

by Jamie Smith Hopkins August 5, 2015January 28, 2022

Workers’ Rights

Reform in Costa Rica signals new strategy against lethal epidemic

by Sasha Chavkin July 29, 2015January 7, 2022

Unequal Risk, Worker Health and Safety, Workers’ Rights

How government, business and labor can better protect workers

by Jamie Smith Hopkins and Maryam Jameel July 6, 2015January 7, 2022

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.

The impenetrable world of Mark Flores

by Jim Morris July 1, 2015January 6, 2023

Workers’ Rights

In his own world: Legacy of a toxic workplace

by Maryam Jameel July 1, 2015January 28, 2022

Slow-motion tragedy for American workers

by Jim Morris, Jamie Smith Hopkins and Maryam Jameel June 29, 2015January 6, 2023

Workers’ Rights

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

by Jamie Smith Hopkins, Jim Morris and Maryam Jameel June 29, 2015January 28, 2022

A tattered safety net for workers

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

The campaign to weaken worker protections

by Jamie Smith Hopkins June 29, 2015February 13, 2023