A New Wrinkle in Wage Battles
By Eli Wolfe on January 10, 2019
For years, truck drivers hauling billions of dollars of clothing, appliances and other consumer goods from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have complained about rampant wage law violations by the trucking firms that hire them. The alleged abuses include failing to pay minimum wages and overtime. But even when truckers’ claims have…
Posted in Recent Stories | Tagged Labor Department, labor laws, wage theft, wage violations, wages, Workplace |
By Eli Wolfe on December 12, 2018
An obscure program that has judged vaccine injury and death claims for three decades passes a financial milestone
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Consumer Protection, Government accountability, Vaccine Safety |
By Eli Wolfe on November 28, 2018
A fateful decision by Congress more than 40 years ago gives the sites unique immunity from safety oversight, even as hundreds of employees have been killed or seriously injured.
Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged Labor Department, labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on November 14, 2018
Without explanation, officials eventually altered crash data, revealing a death toll more than 3 times higher than previously acknowledged.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Eli Wolfe on October 15, 2018
Despite mounting casualties from crashes of recreational off-highway vehicles, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has shot down a proposal to track injuries and deaths involving the popular trail machines.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Off-Road Vehicles |
By Eli Wolfe on October 3, 2018
A new survey has found that nearly 50 percent of emergency physicians have been physically assaulted on the job.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on August 20, 2018
For the second time in recent months, the U.S. Department of Labor has extracted penalties from a California farm business blamed for the deadly crash of a vehicle transporting migrant field workers to their jobs.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Food Supply, Government accountability, labor laws, wage theft, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on July 18, 2018
For the third time in six years, a branch of one of the world’s largest cargo-handling companies has been accused by workplace safety authorities of a willful violation linked to a worker’s death.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Eli Wolfe on June 28, 2018
It’s no secret that the waning power of American unions has contributed to stagnant wages. But a new study suggests that this trend hasn’t affected just worker income. It also may have cost thousands of lives. The portion of the U.S. work force covered by unions has fallen for decades, and the labor movement suffered…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Labor Department, labor laws, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
