News

Workplace and hazard mapping is a tool that a number of unions are now using to identify unsafe job areas by literally producing a floor map of the worksite.

A landmark university study of CWA technicians at Verizon in California offers proof of what many telecom techs know all too well: They are working long hours, facing heat stress, electrical hazards, physical strain and other conditions that are affecting their health.

In the past year, the Obama administration has worked to restore the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's mission to protect workers on the job. It's a real contrast to the previous eight years, when the Bush administration did everything possible to deregulate OSHA, slash funds and hand out jobs to business and management friends.

On that dreadful September day eight years ago, Jack Noonan was among the thousands of people running from lower Manhattan through a fog of ash as the sky rained rubble.