health and safety
AFL-CIO, Building Trades hail EPA’s asbestos ban
March 25, 2024In six months bans on asbestos still used in car brakes, linings, and gaskets will be banned.
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Unions demand Congress keep ban on ‘ghost guns’
March 22, 2024Guns with no metal in them can go through airport, bus, and train detectors and threaten transport workers.
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Alec Baldwin’s magic bullet: The rush to ‘Rust’
February 5, 2024Baldwin as producer was at least partly responsible for a set that, because of skimping on a sparse budget and rushing into production, was a maze of tensions, a tempest ready to burst.
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People’s World special report: Next East Palestine waiting to happen
February 2, 2024The consensus among railroad unions and workers is that it will happen again.
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Un estudio encuentra niveles alarmantemente altos de ‘sustancias químicas eternas’ en los estuarios
January 29, 2024Un nuevo estudio ha descubierto que los pequeños estuarios costeros contienen concentraciones de sustancias perfluoroalquiladas (PFAS) "sustancias químicas permanentes" lo suficientemente altas como para indicar un problema mundial.
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