November 2020
November 10: A COVID Health & Safety Conversation with Peg Seminario
This week, we were joined by Peg Seminario, Former Director of Occupational Safety and Health for the AFL-CIO from 1990 until her retirement in 2019. Peg talked about the failure of federal OSHA to protect workers [...]
October 2020
Workers, Community Groups, Advocacy Organizations, and Labor Unions Hail Gov. Murphy’s Workplace Protection Executive Order as “Key First Step” to Ensure Worker Safety During the Pandemic
October 28, 2020 – Trenton, NJ: After a six month campaign to urge Governor Murphy to use his emergency powers to take executive action to protect NJ workers during the pandemic, the Protect NJ Workers Coalition [...]
October 27: The Importance of Reporting: Filing an Effective Complaint
Today Ellie Barbarash, Health and Safety Coordinator for Health Professionals and Allied Employees, drew upon her experience and long track record of filing successful OSHA complaints. With changing CDC COVID guidance and no OSHA standard for [...]
October 20: How Prepared are We for a Second Wave? Lessons Learned and Challenges Still Ahead in Healthcare
This week we were joined by Debbie White, RN and President of HPAE, who recapped the horror, confusion, and trauma of the first wave of COVID for patients and healthcare workers, while outlining how we [...]
October 13: Is Covid Cleaning Making you Sick? Disinfectants may be effective, but are they safe?
This week we took a deeper dive into the use of hazardous chemicals in the workplace, specifically as they are used to combat the spread of COVID19. A rush to prevent viral spread has in [...]
October 6: Domestic Work, Workers’ Rights, and COVID-19
When we advance the rights of domestic workers, we advance the rights of all women and all workers,” Tatiana Bejar reminded us at yesterday’s webinar. Tatiana spoke as part of a panel of organizers and [...]