– by Tula Connell This is a cross-post from the firedoglake blog. Every day, most of us go to work and then come home. Next day: Rinse, repeat. But some U.S. workers go to work and never come home. In April 2005, Donald Wilcher Smith was one of them. The 22-year-old central Texas man was electrocuted at the Sanderson Farms processing […]
Pennsylvanians Ask McCain for Health Care Solutions
by Seth Michaels Outside the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., union members and members of Working America gathered yesterday to call attention to the nation’s health care crisis and to ask Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to offer a health care plan that really tackles the issues of cost and availability. Earlier this week, […]
Missouri Union Members Get the Facts on Health Care
by Seth Michaels , Apr 29, 2008 More than 60 union members, their families and local candidates came together for a health care presentation sponsored by the Northwest Missouri Central Labor Council in St. Joseph yesterday. Members reviewed a video, talked about their personal experiences with the health care system and passed a resolution promising to […]
McCain’s Health Care Plan: Increases Taxes, Decreases Coverage
by Seth Michaels, Apr 29, 2008 Today in Tampa, Fla., Sen. John McCain gave an address his advisers claimed would “unveil” his health care proposal—but he essentially offered the same tired proposal he’s been touting for months. Most policy analysts agree this plan won’t cut costs, won’t cover more people and won’t […]
House Committee Approves Bill to Address Deadly Dust Explosions
Sugar dust, like other industrial dusts, is extremely combustible, but despite the urging of safety experts, the Bush administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has yet to set a federal standard to control combustible dust levels. Today, the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee approved a bill to force OSHA to issue combustible […]