Weekly Toll, News Articles and Congressional Hearings

[Jordan Barab]

1. The latest Weekly Toll: http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/2007/04/weekly-toll-death-in-american-workplace.html  

 

 

 

2. A couple of good articles

 

The Southland's hidden Third World slums

THERMAL, CALIF. In the Coachella Valley, hundreds of trailer parks house desperately poor Latino workers amid burning trash, mud, contaminated water.  

Like most of their neighbors in the sprawling, ramshackle Oasis Mobile Home Park, the Aguilars have no heat, no hot water. On cold nights, the family of eight stays warm by bundling up in layers of sweaters and sleeps packed together in two tiny rooms.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-trailerpark26mar26,0,3370103.story?coll=la-home-local

 

The Next Attack

Terrorists in Iraq are becoming proficient at blowing up oil refineries. Similar plants in a handful of American
cities represent our greatest vulnerability. We could easily be making them less dangerous. But we're not.

By Stephen Flynn

 

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0703.flynn.html

 

 

3. Congressional Hearings

 

Also, you can watch two recent health and safety hearings (BP Texas City explosion, and Mine Safety) of the House Education and Labor Committee here:

 

"Protecting the Health and Safety of America's Mine Workers" ››

http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/fc032807.shtml
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

 

 

"The BP-Texas City Disaster and Worker Safety" ››

http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/fc032207.shtml
Thursday, March 22, 2007

And, a Senate Hearing on banning asbstos, here:

 

Subcommittee Hearing - Asbestos: Still Lethal/Still Legal – The Need to Better Protect the Health of American Workers and Their Families , March 1

http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2007_03_01/2007_03_01.html 

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Jordan Barab