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It was supposed to be a humanitarian mission, not a war, but Associated Press reporter and president of TNG-CWA Local 31222 Tony Winton remembers his time in Somalia in the early 1990s as the most dangerous of his assignments in the world's hot zones.

In the US, the federal government imposes larger fines against broadcasters for televising offensive material than it does against employers found guilty of willful actions that cause workers' deaths.

President Richard Nixon's signature created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in December 1970. For the past seven years, labor leaders and workers' safety advocates say another Republican president has tried to turn back the clock to 1969.

Back and neck injuries, needle sticks, fires in the operating room — Nurses United, CWA Local 1168 has been tremendously successful in reducing all manner of occupational illnesses and injuries.

Regular training is the key, local health and safety officer Dana McCarthy said.

Safety and health activism can be a strong factor in organizing unrepresented workers, as IUE-CWA Local 81201 in Lynn, Mass., can attest.  When the General Electric local widened its organizing efforts in the early 1990s, it helped about 35 workers at the city's wastewater treatment plant wi