charles jeffress
GRITtv: Slap on Wrist for Killing Workers?
Sixteen workers a day die from work-related injuries, according to this latest video from Brave New Films. Charles Jeffress, former Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, notes that there are hardly any consequences to employers for failing to comply with guidelines -- and with four million injuries on the job each year, it seems that employers have decided that it's easier to flout the law than to comply. The law is inadequate, Jeffress says. With a new and supposedly labor-friendly administration and a Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, who announced, "There's a new sheriff in town," upon her confirmation, perhaps we can do better than one OSHA inspector per 63,000 workers?
Email this pageGRITtv: Nov. 17, 2009
Economist Dean Baker and the Nation's John Nichols talk about ways to create good, meaningful, well-paid jobs and rethink the way Americans look at work. The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg's new book collects his essays on the Obama generation. Though hopeful, Hertzberg offers criticisms of the way the health care reform fight and others have been conducted. Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll of New Left Media bring Part One of their inside look at the No On One campaign in Maine, where voters overturned a decision by the state legislature to legalize gay marriage. financial rating agencies and their future.
