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… were seriously injured or diseased because of their jobs.  Every day an average of 14 workers die from job injuries, never to return home to their loved ones and families. The nation’s job safety laws were enacted 40 years ago and have … that employers fix serious violations if they contest OSHA citations to make sure that workers are protected.    Workers’ right to speak out and raise job safety concerns would be updated and strengthened by bringing the OSHAct’s whistleblower … would have a right to pursue their cases on their own if OSHA failed to act, and OSHA could order a worker put back to work based on a preliminary investigation. True to form, employer trade associations, including the National Mining …

… their insurance companies and the federal government knew asbestos was a deadly poison, millions of workers were exposed to asbestos. As a result, hundreds of thousands of workers have or will develop serious disease, which in many cases is fatal. For decades, the victims of asbestos poisoning have sought compensation for the terrible wrongs done to them and their families. With the help of their unions, many asbestos victims have received compensation through the legal … to the courts. There should not be incentives for victims with early stages of asbestos-related diseases to give up their right to compensation should their conditions worsen. · All those who have been exposed to asbestos should have access to …

… attacks, reckless job cuts have become all too common, pension obligations have been dumped and draconian changes to collective bargaining agreements—often through the use of or the threat of bankruptcy—have been forced on employees.  Air carriers claim drastic cost-cutting and outsourcing, no matter the impact on workers and passengers, are the only ways to keep airlines flying and out of bankruptcy or liquidation.  Yet airline CEOs—just a few years after securing billions from … in 1995.  Flight schedules set by air carriers often ignore the laws of physics and would require time travel to actually work.  The old and tired tactic of blaming virtually every delay on weather is simply no longer acceptable, and carriers have …

… for our most disadvantaged students, wraparound services that address the out-of-school factors that should not be allowed to impede teaching and learning. Central Falls High School is the only high school in Central Falls, R.I., a community of … the superintendent in January that a transformation model should be employed at the school. Unfortunately, their attempt to engage through their union with the superintendent on the design and details of that model were rebuffed at only their second meeting. The superintendent then unilaterally decided to impose a turnaround model that called for the entire staff to be fired, disrupting teaching and learning at the school, …