Amazon.com Worker’s Death Sheds Much-Needed Light on Worker Safety
We may not know for several months exactly how a temporary worker died this month at Amazon.com's distribution center in Avenel, but there is already a lot we know about how companies like Amazon exploit [...]
Photo Essay: Documenting New Jersey’s Crumbling Schools
An art exhibit on the Statehouse steps yesterday exposed the shameful conditions in some New Jersey public schools. The exhibit, titled "A Blind Eye: The Immorality of Inaction," highlights the shocking result that four years [...]
Toxic Brews at Chemical Plants Could Trigger another Paulsboro-like Incident
A highly toxic cloud of cancer-causing chemicals moves into neighborhoods where local residents live and work. People are sent to the hospital in droves. More have to evacuate their homes. Parents are told not to [...]
Will Gov. Christie Act to Prevent a Toxic Disaster?
"It can't happen here." That's what most of us think when we hear about toxic chemical disasters. It's a comforting thought - except that if you live in New Jersey, it unfortunately is just not [...]
Senator Steve Sweeney can help stop New Jersey’s Waiver Rule
Should New Jersey make it easy for wealthy campaign contributors to get waivers from the state to violate public safeguards that protect our jobs, rights at work, health and safety, or pocketbooks as consumers? Stephen [...]
Danger lurks at industrial workplaces, just ask Texas
Could the kind of industrial fire and explosion that recently decimated a town in Texas happen here in New Jersey - the state with the greatest concentration of workplaces with hazardous chemicals in the nation? [...]