Workplace Safety

The World Is Watching The United States; So Are Workers

July 30, 2026 Luc Triangle and Cathy Feingold, Inequality.org. Educate! International Trade Union Confederation, United States, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

An international coalition of unions just placed the United States on a "Watchlist" for labor violations. For generations, the United States has been a global advocate for freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. Today, however, the world is calling on the United States to uphold those same principles at home. Last month, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), representing over 200 million workers through 340 national affiliates in 169 countries, ranked the United States among countries with “systemic violations of worker rights.” The ITUC’s Global Rights Index assesses over 150 countries based on 97 indicators drawn from international standards and jurisprudence.

How Letter Carriers Can Organize To Prevent Smoke Injury

July 26, 2026 Jamie Partridge, Labor Notes. Organize! US Postal Service, Wildfire Smoke, Worker's Rights, Workplace Safety

Letter carriers and other people who work outdoors, especially in the upper Midwest and East, are experiencing hazardous levels of smoke from Canadian wildfires. Some areas have been experiencing AQI (Air Quality Index) measurements of over 300, even over 500, with local authorities advising residents to stay indoors. As temperatures continue to rise from climate change and vegetation dries out and catches fire from lightning, this situation will get worse. We are being given advice by Postal Service management and our union leadership to make individual decisions about whether we are safe delivering mail in these conditions. Wrong!

Stay Out Of The Heat, Officials Said, But Apps Sent Workers Into It

July 9, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. Educate! climate crisis, Global heating, Platform Workers, Workplace Safety

In the first week of July 2026, a heat dome settled over the central and eastern United States. Heat indexes reached 115 degrees. More than 185 million people were under heat alerts, and more than 30 people died before the heat broke. The real count will rise, because heat often kills through the heart, kidneys and lungs and is recorded as something else. Millions of people were told to stay indoors. Delivery workers were sent into the streets. That is the app economy’s business model in physical form. When the weather becomes dangerous, those who can afford to stay inside order food, groceries and medicine.

Teamsters Document The Disaster Of Deregulation

July 6, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Educate! Deregulation, Teamsters, Truckdrivers, Workplace Safety

Deregulation of the trucking industry almost 50 years ago produced a Wild West of fly-by-night operators, declining wages and abominable working conditions—such as workers driving too many hours on too little sleep—and scattershot service to shippers, the Teamsters say in a long analysis of the history of the industry. It’s printed in the latest issue of the union’s magazine. And the deregulatory saga is relevant today, and not just in trucking, though the union doesn’t say so. That’s because the GOP regime of anti-union President Donald Trump has embarked on deregulation with a vengeance since he returned to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025.

China Puts Gig-App Algorithms On The Bargaining Table

June 14, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. Create! China, Gig Workers, Internet platforms, Unions, Workplace Safety

On Sept. 6, 2024, a 55-year-old delivery rider identified by the surname Yuan was found unconscious on his electric scooter outside a residential complex in Hangzhou. He had been lying there for hours before anyone realized something was wrong. Other riders thought he was napping — because that was how Yuan rested. He worked 16 to 18 hours a day, taking orders from multiple platforms, lying down on his scooter between deliveries and getting back up the moment the next order hit his phone. He never got up again.

Emergency Vigil And Picket For 11 Victims Of Longview Disaster

May 30, 2026 Ian Freeman and Gemini Gnull, Fight Back! News. Resist! Industrial Accident, Washington State, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Tacoma, WA – A dozen people gathered along the fence of U.S. Oil & Refining Co on Wednesday, May 27 in an emergency picket and vigil for the 11 people killed in the Longview paper mill disaster. Signs with statements like “Clean it up or shut it down,” “Justice for the Longview 11” and “System change not climate change” waved as attendees picketed the back gate. This emergency event was called by Climate Alliance of the South Sound (CASS) in response to one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Washington state history. On Tuesday, May 26, a paper mill chemical vat imploded, killing ten workers and wounding several more; at least one of whom has since died from their injuries.

American Press Freedom On The Brink

May 3, 2026 Clayton Weimers, Scheer Post. Educate! Press Freedom, State Repression, United States, Workplace Safety

As World Press Freedom Day (May 3) nears, it’s a good time to step back and assess how journalists and news outlets are faring in our current media climate. President Donald Trump came back to the White House and picked up right where he left off, insulting and attacking the press on an almost daily basis, suing media outlets, and taking a number of concrete actions to restrict press freedom. Against this backdrop, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will release its 2026 World Press Freedom Index on April 30. Every year, RSF scores and ranks 180 countries and territories based on their level of press freedom.

Every 104 Minutes Corporate Neglect Kills Another Worker

April 24, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Educate! Corporatism, Deaths, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

A worker dies from corporate negligence every 104 minutes. The suppliers of auto parts for Hyundai and Kia cars. The Subway restaurant chain. The nation’s biggest homebuilder, which let Donald Trump’s vicious and violent ICE agents raid its job sites. A snack food company that puts migrants’ children into hazardous factory jobs. “Workers are still being poisoned, injured, exploited and killed on the job,” says Jessica Martinez, executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), which released its annual “Dirty Dozen” report on the worst job safety and health violators nominated by its local councils and allies, and why those corporate bad actors made the list–though they’re not alone.

An Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers

April 21, 2026 Kayla Yup, In these Times. Resist! California, health, OSHA, Silicosis, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Luis Hernandez, then 35, woke to a gray, hazy sky on Feb. 17, 2024. He opted for a warm sweater and cargo pants with pockets just big enough to hold his spare canister of oxygen, but he hoped he wouldn’t need it. It would be a big day out for him and his friends — the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif., was hosting a special Pokemon Go event where some of the rarest Pokemon could be found. When the group arrived, they headed straight to the belly of the bowl, blanketed with bright green turf. Hernandez settled into a rhythm: Walk 50 feet. Pause for 30 minutes. Catch some Pokemon. Walk another 50 feet. Pause another 30 minutes. Catch some Pokemon.

Court Rejects Perdue’s Effort To Dismantle Whistleblower Review

March 25, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Resist! Legal System, Perdue, Whistleblowers, Workplace Safety

A United States court rejected an effort by poultry manufacturer Perdue Farms to eliminate the Labor Department’s process for reviewing whistleblower claims. Whistleblowers Rudy Howell and Craig Watts, who had contracts with Perdue, alleged that the corporation retaliated against them when they raised concerns about animal welfare and other health and safety hazards. On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its regulatory authority to penalize securities fraud. The court held that the SEC’s in-house tribunal violated the Seventh Amendment “right to a trial by jury.”

University Of Utah Workers Launch Campaign To Improve Conditions

February 10, 2026 Fight Back! News. Organize! Health Care, Higher Education, Sanctuary, Unions, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Salt Lake City, UT — On Saturday, February 7, over 100 campus and hospital workers at the University of Utah rallied to launch their “U for Who?” campaign. Workers are fighting to win parking stipends for all employees, safer staffing ratios for teachers and healthcare workers with compensation, respect for the university’s own meet-and-confer policy, and a sanctuary campus from immigration enforcement. Utah Healthcare Workers United (UHWU) and United Campus Workers of Utah (UCWU) are units of Communication Workers of America Local 7765.

Rail Workers Warn That Merger Would Yield Injury And Even Death

December 20, 2025 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Educate! Merger, Monopoly, Railroads, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

It is no secret that irresponsible rail giants out for profits have visited injury and death on workers and massive destruction to communities around the country. Workers are warning that a new corporate monster railroads want to create via a merger would tear up critical health and safety measures that protect both workers and people in towns thorough which the trains pass. The monster rail monopolies created America’s Gilded Age. Now, the proposed $85 billion merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern seeks to create a new Gilded Age for the 21st century.

Action Alert: Keep Our Highways Safe From Hazardous Materials

November 1, 2025 Truckers Movement for Justice, Earth Justice. Resist! Fossil Fuels, Hazardous Waste, Truckers, Workplace Safety

Every day, oil and gas companies haul potentially hazardous materials from oilfields onto our highways without following adequate safety rules, thanks to lack of federal enforcement. This is putting truckers and communities at greater risk of catastrophe. Join Earthjustice and our client, Truckers Movement for Justice, to demand that Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies enforce existing hazardous material rules when it comes to hauling oilfield waste. The waste that is created during the fracking and extraction process is often toxic, radioactive, or highly flammable, but because laws are not properly enforced, the waste is not being classified as hazardous materials.

Kentucky Battery Plant Joins United Auto Workers In Close Vote

August 29, 2025 Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. Resist! Kentucky, Unions, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Kentucky battery plant workers at the BlueOval SK Battery Park (BOSK) in Glendale have voted to join the United Auto Workers. The workers make batteries to power Ford’s all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck and E-Transit cargo van. On August 27 at 10 p.m., an unofficial tally showed 526 yes and 515 no votes, with 41 challenged ballots. There were 1,200 eligible voters; turnout was over 90 percent. The UAW called the vote “a major step forward for workers who stood up against intense company opposition and chose to join the UAW.” “We’re feeling pretty confident, I think we’re gonna win,” said battery worker Halee Hadfield via text message on August 23.

Farmworkers Continue To Organize In Face Of Chilling ICE Raids

August 25, 2025 Joe Maniscalco, Work-Bites. Resist! Farmworkers, Global heating, ICE, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

Imagine you’re a farmworker in 2025. You make the food on tables across the United States possible. Five years ago because of the pandemic, people even began acknowledging the essential work you do. It felt good for a second, even hopeful, after decades of being left out of the conversation around worker rights. Soaring summer temperatures threaten more than 69 million workers across the United States with heat-related illnesses each year, according to the National Committee on Occupational Safety and Health [COSH]. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 14 heat-injury deaths in Texas alone. But farmworkers are 35 times more likely to die of heat-related stress than workers in other dangerous industries.

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