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Death On The Job report: Years of progress, long way to go May 5, 2021 2:53 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Accidents, injury and deaths on the job are common in the construction industry. Photo credit: Capt. Mark Carr, U.S. Dept. of Labor via Creative Commons
WASHINGTON In the decades since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established, there’s been a lot of progress in cutting worker deaths and injuries on the job. However, there’s still a long way to go.
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Death On The Job report: Years of progress, long way to go May 5, 2021 2:53 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Accidents, injury and deaths on the job are common in the construction industry. Photo credit: Capt. Mark Carr, U.S. Dept. of Labor via Creative Commons
WASHINGTON In the decades since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established, there’s been a lot of progress in cutting worker deaths and injuries on the job. However, there’s still a long way to go.
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Reactions to Chauvin guilty verdict: Only a first step to justice April 22, 2021 11:00 AM CDT By PAI
Celebrations broke out nationwide after the verdict was read. Here, the scene outside AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington. | AP
WASHINGTON The overwhelming reaction to the Minneapolis jury’s verdict finding former city police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges of murder and manslaughter in kneeing George Floyd to death last year was that it was great, but only a first step towards justice.
California Nurses Urges Congress to Pass Biden’s American Rescue Plan
By Bertram Keller Contributing Writer
Published February 4, 2021
Members of the California Nurses Association (CNA) and National Nurses United (NNU) organized an online briefing for the California Congressional Delegation, with hopes that congress steps up to meets the needs of healthcare workers during the highest recorded surge of Covid-19 cases.
As numbers continue to spike, hospital conditions have become unacceptable for frontline medical workers. The inadequate funding behind public health has led to a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), understaffed personnel, and neglect for the protocol of infectious disease control.
California COVID-19 surge leaves hospital nurses frustrated over staffing shortages The state s nurses union urges Congress to pass President Biden s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
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Roughly a year into the pandemic, healthcare workers across the country are taking care of record numbers of COVID-19 patients, and many are doing so without access to optimal personal protective equipment, testing, safe staffing levels and other infection control policies.
In California, which has surpassed three million cases, nurses are facing an especially daunting task of caring for the more than 20,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients amid dwindling intensive care unit capacities, according to state COVID-19 data.