Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2002/04/page/2/)
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration unveiled a new ergonomics plan that includes guidelines, enforcement against the worst violators, aid to small business and more research on ergonomic injuries. Union leaders called it inadequate.
What happens when a teenager commits a serious crime? Often the gravity of their offense, or a prior criminal record, make it impossible for them to be sentenced through the juvenile corrections system. Yet sending them to prison with adult offenders is not a good solution either.
The precarious state of workers rights and immigrant rights will be the focus of a May 1 demonstration and march in downtown Minneapolis.
Ceremonies honoring the 600-plus union victims of the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center – among the 3,000 total dead – will headline commemoration of Workers Memorial Day.
David Korten, author of ‘When Corporations Rule the World,’ will speak at 7:30 p.m. April 26 as part of the conference ‘ReVisioning: Building Community for a Sustainable Future.
People often think of ‘epidemics’ in terms of illnesses. Something in the air or the water or any source of germs or other microorganisms that make a lot of people sick with fever, nausea, aches, chills and the like. A flu epidemic, for instance.
The number of workers killed on the job in Minnesota reached what may be an all-time low in 2000, but workers here are more likely to be injured on the job than elsewhere in the country, according to the latest federal and state statistics.
Massive stock crashes like Enron and Global Crossing decimate employees’ 401(k) retirement plans. Bankruptcies like LTV reveal inadequate pension reserves, leaving thousands of retirees with a mere fraction of the pension they had earned. Meanwhile, the Bush administration continues to pursue attempts to privatize Social Security, exposing even the most basic of retirement accounts to the whims of the stock market.
The recent collapse of Enron and the loss of health coverage and pension benefits for LTV retirees makes it clear we need changes in our laws governing pensions and other retirement benefits.