Temp workers organize for change in an industry rife with reported abuses:...
For eight years, Dora worked at a frozen pizza factory in Romeoville, Illinois, called Great Kitchens. For eight hours a day — sometimes seven days a week — she assembled pizza boxes or arranged cheese...
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Health and safety hazards encountered by custodians, palm tree workers, day laborers, nurses, and bakery workers are just some of the dozens of different occupations examined in research presented at...
View ArticleLabor Day yearbook highlights worker safety at the state and local levels
Paid sick leave, new rights for temp workers, and extending OSHA protections to public sector employees were among the many victories that unfolded at the state and local levels in the last 12 months...
View ArticlePublic health researchers and activists gather for 143rd annual meeting:...
Kim Krisberg and I are with our public health colleagues this week at the 143rd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Thousands of researchers, practitioners, and advocates...
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At Reveal, reporter Will Evans investigates discrimination within temporary staffing agencies, finding a pattern of racial, sexist and otherwise discriminatory hiring practices. He begins his story...
View ArticleWorth reading: Antibiotic resistance, invisible workforce, and detectives...
A few of the recent pieces I’ve liked: Maryn McKenna at National Geographic’s Germination: How We’ll Tackle Diseases That Are Becoming Untreatable (“The United Nations just declared antibiotic...
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In “The Invisible Workforce: Death, discrimination and despair in N.J.’s temp industry,” NJ Advance Media reporter Kelly Heyboer investigated conditions facing temp workers in New Jersey, which now has...
View Article“Hazards of the gig economy” – Temp workers at greater risk for workplace...
On a typical week, about 3 million people are on the job in the United States as temp workers, this according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In September 2016, just shy of 3 million people were...
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A reporter goes undercover to expose the conditions facing temp workers; West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin comes out against Trump's MSHA pick; carpenters union confronts Industrial Commission of Arizona...
View ArticleWayne Farms and Employer Solutions Staffing subject of Alabama poultry...
“When workers get hurt in poultry plants, many employers try to just throw them away,” explained Tom Fritzsche a staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). “Companies assume workers...
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