Behind the Smiles
Inside one of Amazon’s hardest-hit warehouses: ‘Why aren’t we closing the building?’
The company’s long-simmering tensions with its warehouse workers have spilled over in the coronavirus pandemic.
worker safety
COVID-19
3 VA health workers have died of COVID-19. 776 have tested positive.
The casualties come in the wake of reporting that staff were short of protective masks and gloves and were required to report to work sick.
COVID-19
How OSHA has failed to protect America’s workers from COVID-19
Efforts to create a federal rule to protect workers from infectious diseases have dragged on for decades.
Behind the Smiles
Federal lawmakers call on OSHA to release Amazon’s injury records
In the wake of Reveal’s investigation, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar say producing the data “should be quick and easy.”
Worked Over
Tree trimming deaths alarm federal officials and industry insiders
Grounds maintenance workers, including tree trimmers, have a fatality rate that is more than three times that of the average worker in the U.S., according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Oil and Mining
In North Dakota’s Bakken oil boom, there will be blood
Across the Bakken, deeply entrenched corporate practices and weak federal oversight have inoculated energy producers against responsibility when worke