Category Archives: Archives
Worker’s Memorial Day Online Zoom Event
Workers’ Memorial Day is the annual commemoration of people who have been killed on the job. 5,333 workers died on the job in 2019 [https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm] (3.5 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers) — on average, more than 100 a week or about 15 deaths every day. About 20% (1,061) of worker fatalities in private industry in …
International Women’s Day
We want to highlight the plight of women garment workers in the United States (from OnLabor): On International Women’s Day, Harpers Bazaar wrote an article that paralleled L.A.’s garment workers campaigns’ to get more workplace protections in the 21st century to the efforts of New York garment workers at the onset of the 20th century to do the same …
Black Lives Matter
We demand the right to be safe at work,safe at home and safe in our communities We at National COSH demand the right to be safe at work, safe at home and safe in our communities. We share the outrage expressed across the globe at the preventable deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, …
COSH Network Works to Stop Pain, Combat Addiction
When Ironworker Shawn Nehiley was prescribed the opioid OxyContin to treat pain for a work injury, the drug’s pull to addiction hit him like “a tornado that you feel you can’t get out of.” Nehiley is a business agent with Ironworkers Local 7 and a MassCOSH board member. Epidemic rates of opioid addiction and overdose are causing …
MCOSH Joins in Demanding Criminal Investigation of Va. Trench Collapse Fatality
evidence, pictures taken by the media show that the trench had a 90-degree angle down and was otherwise unsecured. After making the decision not to secure the trench, the responsible parties intentionally or recklessly directed or authorized two or more people to descend into or otherwise come in dangerous proximity to the unsecured trench, at …