health and safety
Nurses to feds: Put people before profits in COVID fight
January 4, 2022The nation’s largest nurses’ union, National Nurses United, wants the CDC to hold the line on loosening worker and consumer safety regulations.
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‘Amazon won’t let us leave’: Tornado creates modern Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
December 15, 2021Chains on doors condemned people to death in the Triangle fire 110 years ago; threats of termination achieved the same outcome this week.
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Unvaccinated are fertile ground for proliferation of new variants
December 9, 2021Good news on coronavirus: Early company reports say that the third Pfizer vaccine may neutralize the Omicron variant.
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America’s rural hospitals were already in the red; COVID could finish them
December 3, 2021Nearly 900, or 40%, of America’s rural hospitals are at immediate or high risk of closure.
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Former OSHA chiefs insist court reinstate anti-virus standards
December 1, 2021Even Republicans join the effort to get the federal appeals court in Cincinnati to restore worker safety standards suspended by another court.
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