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Worker Health & Safety Book Shows How Worker Centers Help Workers Win Wages, Dignity, and Health
May 22, 2021 Liz Borkowski, MPH

In their new book On the Job: The Untold Story of Worker Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health (New Press, 2021), Celeste Monforton and Jane M. Von Bergen tell the stories of workers who band together and fight for safer and more humane workplaces in which they’re paid for the hours they work.

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Public Health Practice Dr. Eula Bingham: Heroine for workers’ right to safe and healthy jobs
June 15, 2020 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 4Comment

Colleagues, former students, and advocates are sharing remembrances and tributes to Dr. Eula Bingham, who passed away on Saturday, June 13 at the age of 90.

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Environmental Health Science on asbestos prominent at hearing, but sidelined in EPA rule
May 8, 2019 Liz Borkowski, MPH

Hours before the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2019 (HR 1603), the New York Times reported that EPA ignored its scientists’ advice in proposing a new asbestos rule.

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Worker Health & Safety Workers Memorial Day 2019: “There is no reason to tolerate irresponsible behavior by employers who fail to provide a safe workplace”
April 28, 2019 Liz Borkowski, MPH

For Workers Memorial Day, two important reports capture what’s wrong in U.S. workplaces.

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Worker Health & Safety Working at the car wash… long hours on an urban assembly line
February 14, 2019 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

I saw the title of the paper ….Car Wash Workers. Immediately the 1976 R&B hit from the movie soundtrack invaded my brain… Working at the car wash, yeah Well, those cars never seem to stop coming (Work and work) Keep those rags and machines humming (Work and work) My fingers to the bone (Work) Can’t […]

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Mining “It probably will be a horrible death,” says coal miner with black lung disease
January 24, 2019 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

NPR’s Howard Berkes and Benny Becker of Ohio Valley Resource invite us to listen to the voice of seven coal miners—all who have severe lung disease because of their work. 

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Worker Health & Safety Diaper-wearing protesters help to secure bathroom breaks for Texas poultry workers
January 15, 2019 Jane M. Von Bergen

“Paradise” for some Texas poultry workers is being defined as permission to pee when necessary. It’s been achieved, at least for the moment.

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Child Labor Mixing teens and mechanical lifts in nursing homes: not safe for patients or teens
December 11, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

A recent poll revealed 80 percent opposition to a Trump administration proposal to allow 16- and 17-year old workers to use power-driven hoisting equipment to move patients in nursing facilities. The risk of injury to patients and to the young workers should be sufficient for the Labor Department to ditch this bad idea.

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Worker Health & Safety Skin cancer prevention for Colorado public sector workers
November 29, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

I just read a super interesting study on efforts to protect public employees in Colorado from developing skin cancer.

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Worker Health & Safety No answers from worker safety agency to parents’ question “how did this happen to our son?”
November 23, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

After an investigation into the work-related death of their son was bungled by Kentucky OSHA, Pam and Mike Oakley filed a complaint with federal OSHA. They learned that shoddy investigations are not the exception, but the rule. I wonder if there are any lawmakers who care enough to do something about it?

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