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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

Apioneering effort by IUE-CWA Local 83761 in Louisville, Ky., has led to a new safety glove for sheet metal workers that GE plans to make available nationwide.