health and safety
Teamsters launch campaign in California to ban driverless trucks
February 16, 2023In pursuit of profits and discounting injury and death, corporations have pushed driverless cars and trains, and now its driverless big rigs. Are airplanes next?
Read moreRailroad corporations’ profit pursuit bombs Ohio with WWI-era chemicals
February 15, 2023The latest from People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
Read moreVictim of lethal gassing by railroad thinks about leaving Ohio town
February 15, 2023“Give me enough to get out of there and I’m out,” says East Palestine resident whose town and water supply, due to railroad negligence and train derailment, was inundated with waves of lethal gas and chemicals.
Read moreRailroad hunger for profits blasts Ohio community with massive dose of poisons
February 14, 2023Residents contend with lethal gases, once used in warfare, killing wildlife and leaving their livestock dead.
Read moreCoronavirus pandemic over? ‘Not so fast,’ says AFL-CIO
February 1, 2023Backed up by the data and with thousands still dying every week, the nation’s largest labor federation calls for continuing measures designed to protect the American people.
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