Prioritizing workplace safety

$1M in grants available to prevent and address gender-based violence and harassment at work

We’re making $1 million available for up to four grants to support efforts to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and harassment against underserved and marginalized women workers.

Workers Memorial Day

On Workers Memorial Day, we’ll be honoring the workers whose jobs have claimed their lives.

How neutrality can benefit employer-labor relationships

A year ago, New Flyer chose neutrality during union organizing, demonstrating that companies working at the frontier of modern manufacturing can benefit economically from relationships with labor. Read this next installment of our neutrality series.

Money for employment and recovery assistance following severe weather in Mississippi

We’re sending $800,000 to the Mississippi Department of Employment Security to support cleanup and recovery activities after severe storms, straight-line winds and tornadoes killed 21 people and ravaged towns in March 2023.

Dollar discount stores rack up even more fines for workplace safety hazards

National discount retailers are exposing their employees and others to unsafe conditions yet again. In the two most recent cases, OSHA inspectors found fire, entrapment and other hazards at a Dollar General in Florida and two Dollar Trees in Rhode Island.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Rana Plaza’s legacy

Ten years ago, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers. Learn about our efforts to make workplaces safer in Bangladesh’s garment industry and across the globe.

Gross injustice

OSHA found the city of Delray Beach, Florida, retaliated against a city inspector by firing them after they reported reclaimed sewer water contaminating the city’s drinking water supply.

Tiny houses, big rewards

A partnership enabled YouthBuild participants to build eco-friendly tiny homes – and taught participants like Roberto skills that will last a lifetime.

$2.28M equity grant

We’re awarding $2,283,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding to help promote equitable access to Hawaii’s unemployment insurance system.

Safety citation

OSHA found a Mississippi farm willfully disregarded safety standards after a teenage guest worker suffocated in a storage bin.

Discrimination settlement

A technology solutions provider has agreed to pay $435,368 to resolve alleged systemic hiring discrimination against Black applicants at the company’s Virginia headquarters.

Working to create Good Jobs, Great Cities

We are partnering with the National League of Cities to help create a blueprint for American cities to connect people to good jobs.

New UI equity tool

Our new toolkit will help states provide all workers with equitable access to unemployment insurance.

National Firefighter Registry

Learn how the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs is working to combat cancer and other illnesses to help federal firefighters.

Unions and clean energy

The labor movement is advancing clean energy initiatives and mobilizing on climate action across the country.

TWEET OF THE WEEK

Did you know studying how to protect the planet often leads to a good paycheck, too? @BLS_gov data shows these 10 jobs with an environmental focus pay above the median. 🌎#EarthDay

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