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As NJ swelters, pols push bill to protect workers from the heat
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 4 days agoU.S. postal workers in several New Jersey locations were hospitalized with dehydration or heat...
Worker deaths in NJ, including three at Amazon, draw attention to heat risks
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAmazon workers at warehouses across New Jersey complained of heat-illness symptoms, and one died...
UPS Union Workers Vote to Authorize Strike. Here’s How it Could Play Out.
Sourcing Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMore than 330,000 UPS workers in the U.S. could potentially be going on strike in less than two...
California letter carrier retires after delivering the mail for 56 years. ‘He’s seen it all’
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn his more than half century of delivering the mail in Modesto, Dave Costa always has had a joke at...
Why thousands of UPS workers could launch one of the largest strikes in American history
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years ago350,000 union workers are pushing for stronger workplace protections and wages. If the shipping...
Deadly chocolate factory blast highlights combustion risks
WPXI via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLast week’s fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory highlighted the combustibility of food...
Column: Employers and governments aren't protecting workers from extreme heat. Unions might
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoHundreds of workers have died from extreme heat, but business lobbyists insist government rules aren't necessary. Workers' best hope for protection: unions.
Working conditions at Bemidji Post Office cause another rural carrier to hit their breaking point
The Bemidji Pioneer, Minn. via Yahoo Finance· 7 months agoDec. 8—BEMIDJI — Dennis Nelson had wanted to see the fight for better working conditions at the Bemidji Post Office to the end, but after weeks of arduous 12-hour shifts and an increasingly ...