WASHINGTON—The workers’ compensation system that covers an estimated 129 million people “is failing workers—especially low-wage workers in dangerous industries,” Deborah Berkowitz, head of the National Employment Law Project’s worker health
More than 40% of New York adults suffer from a chronic disease such as heart disease, hypertension, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and arthritis. Chronic diseases are responsible for most of our
ALBANY, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed regulations to require all power plants in New York to meet new emissions limits for carbon dioxide (CO2), a potent greenhouse
WASHINGTON—Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced plans May 17 to rescind chemical-safety regulations established by the Obama administration after 15 people were killed in a 2013 explosion at a
SOUTH MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – A plant accident resulted in the death of a worker at Caterpillar’s South Milwaukee plant. Sixty-year-old Steven Wade was hit in the head by a heavy
WASHINGTON, DC – SEIU is battling with Planned Parenthood over the organizibg of the PP Rocky Mountains-area centers. Planned Parenthood is using both legal as well as political weapons to
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A strike by about 600 workers at United Launch Alliance ended May 19 when International Association of Machinists members ratified a four-year contract. The workers, who build rockets
This week, hundreds of 1199 SEIU hospital workers and students conducted a petition walk at NYU Tisch, delivering nearly 3,000 signatures from 1199 caregivers, and a letter to Dr. Robert
PLYMOUTH, N.H.—A federal mediator joined talks between the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1837 May 11, seeking to resolve the strike that began May
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