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'The AFL-CIO & 3 top former OSHA officials fear the possibility of Elon Musk
accessing unredacted whistleblower files that OSHA maintains. There's currently dozens of open OSHA cases across Tesla, SpaceX, & The Boring Company.
Companies tied to Elon Musk have dozens of workplace health & safety cases open at OSHA. Union leaders & former OSHA officials are concerned.
#Musk #Corruption #DOGE #OSHA #Public Safety #WorkerSafety #WorkersRights #Union #Tesla #SpaceX #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-osha-whistleblower-files/
Today in Labor History April 5, 2010: Twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. In 2015, Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was convicted of a misdemeanor for conspiring to willfully violate safety standards and was sentenced to one year in prison. He was found not guilty of charges of securities fraud and making false statements. Investigators also found that the U.S. Department of Labor and its Mine Safety and Health Administration were guilty of failing to act decisively, even after Massey was issued 515 citations for safety violations at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2009, prior to the deadly explosion.
So, the U.S. Dept of Labor, back when the U.S. staffed and funded its regulatory agencies, allowed a murderous boss to get away with 515 safety violations, resulting in the deaths of 29 miners, without any consequences for its bosses. And the courts gave the murderous CEO of Massey Energy a year in a Country Club prison for those same 29 worker deaths. But they’re gonna try Luigi Mangione for first-degree murder and seek the death penalty because he supposedly killed a murderous white-collar crook?
As they say, there is no Justice for the working-class; but there’s plenty of “Just Us” for the wealthy, as in court rulings just for them; subsidies and tax right-offs just for them; elite clubs and resorts just for them; and the right, just for them, to kill their workers and consumers in the pursuit of profits.
#YourLocalEpidemiologist #YLE #KatelynJetelina
Why we keep going
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.
#HIV #Asthma #airQuality #EnvironmentalHazard
#GunViolence #Communications #workersafety
#ReproductiveHealth #BirthDefects #DisabilityHealth
#TB_Prevention #BloodDisorder
#DrugUse #MentalHealth
#LeadPoisoning #WaterSafety
#TobaccoControl
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/why-we-keep-going
#HealthCare #us #usa #sectarian #kleptofascist #billionaire #looter
Italy: homicide charges against Italian farmer following worker’s death http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJvYqL #Italy #HomicideCharges #WorkerSafety #LaborRights #Agriculture
#Dole #Chiquita #DelMonte #banana
In addition to using mafia terror to discipline their miserably exploited workers and eliminate union power, these companies also knowingly poisoned farmers to the point of sterility, cancer, organ failure and death, because--if they can get away with it--they don't give a fuck about #WorkerSafety and #WorkerHealth.
Please consider this before buying products from these companies.
Buy local and seasonal veggies and fruit as much as possible rather than ag products shipped from the other side of the planet.
What Is OSHA and Why Do Some Republicans Want to Disband It? | TIME
https://time.com/7213433/what-is-osha-republicans-disband/ #OSHA #Republicans #Workplace #WorkerSafety #Safety #Politics #Government #Health
"Republicans just introduced a bill that would eliminate safety regulations and standards for workers.
This will get workers killed, and encourage corporations to gamble with their workers’ safety to increase profits.
There’s a reason corporations donate so much to politicians."
-M D'Arrigo
They want to “nullify” #OSHA.
Watch these companies lie through their teeth. And the employer, of course, later will be firing people if they get sick or cancer from breathing in all of the smoke.
Amid fires, a fine line between work and well-being
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-01-11/how-workplaces-are-dealing-with-los-angeles-fires
ON THE UNREASONABLE DANGERS OF WORKING FOR ELON MUSK
A thread...
H5N1 found in wastewater in Arizona and Hawaii, yet no cattle outbreaks in either state? How'd it get there? Scientists still trying to figure it out.
Meanwhile, just like early in the Covid pandemic, who are the most at risk? Front line workers, mostly low income and immigrant workers in food production. And just like with Covid, we're doing little to protect them? No PPE. No mass testing.
) This is the #DisintegrationChecklist. #TheChecklist of what we can expect to lose in the next four years. That makes it a tool for gauging the progress of loss. 43 items. A grim countdown score in the form of a simple number: how many are still left? That is the #DisintegrationScore. 43... for now.
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from https://absurdistwords.bsky.social:
#ThingsThatWillDisappearInTheNextFourYears (A non-exhaustive list)
#AbortionRights
#Contraception
#NoFaultDivorce
#ViolenceAgainstWomenAct (#VAWA)
#CivilRightsAct
#VotingRightsAct
#FirstAmendment Protections
#BirthrightCitizenship
#NaturalizationProtection
#EnvironmentalProtection
#ConsumerProtection
#FraudProtection
#PoliceBrutality #ConsentDecrees
#HabeasCorpus
Three #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
#GenderAffirmingCare
#HormoneReplacement
#InVitroFertilization
#SameSexMarriage
#InterracialMarriage
#AntiDiscrimination Laws
#WorkerSafety Laws
#CollectiveBargaining
#AffordableCareAct (#ACA)
#PrisonReform
#AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct (#ADA)
#RightToPrivacy
#SeparationOfChurchAndState
#ForeignAid Programs
#PovertyPrograms
#PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision
#SexualFreedom
#AntiSegregation Laws
#VaccineMandates
#PublicSchool System
#PublicLibrary System
#StareDecisis
#ChildLabor Laws
#Antitrust Laws
#LegalCannabis
#Pornography
#SexWorker Protections
#InternetFreedom
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Keeping track of this #DisintegrationChecklist, & the
#DisintegrationScore, is not a silly thing. I am not trying to #gamify the #apocalypse. It is a concrete measure, and if it is widely shared, it will make apparent even to the distracted the accelerating loss. A tool for those capable of caring.
https://bsky.app/profile/absurdistwords.bsky.social/post/3lb5wwj23v22u
Quick Animal Facts - The vast majority of frogs aren't forklift certified #meme #safety #frogs #memes #workersafety #frogfriday #SafetyFirstFriday #frog
Quick Animal Facts - The vast majority of frogs aren't forklift certified
Three migrant Bangladeshi workers die in fire at Rulewave Logistics Malaysia and Pentachem factories at Southern Industrial and Logistics Clusters in Johor, Malaysia.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/us/helene-flooding-impact-plastics-lawsuit/index.html
Family of factory worker who died in Helene flooding files wrongful death suit against employer
#NoBillionaires #impactplastics #helene
#wagetheft #livingwage #workersafety #workersrights
Cracked Skull, Fractured Bones Show Danger for Rivian Factory’s Workers
Maker of $100,000 EVs struggled to put in place the procedures, equipment and training needed to keep employees safe.
Lockout the equipment before you work on it. Period.
If you can't, refuse the work.
Also: It's typically *more expensive to the worker* to maintain their #RemoteWorking space.
They pay rent / mortgage on a space used primarily to benefit their employer. They have to pay for internet service during hours primarily to benefit their employer. They have to cater, to clean, to maintain the space, etc. at their own expense. All of this the worker is providing.
I argue there should be #WorkerCompensation *for working remotely*, in a lot of cases.
That employers balk at this expenses-based idea, shows that they care less about operating cost for remote work, and much more about control and #surveillance over the worker.