health and safety

These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us
How workplace surveillance has become a menace to health and safety.
http://www.thenation.com/article/208425/these-workers-have-new-demand-st...

Jessica Bruder May 27, 2015 | This article appeared in the June 15, 2015 edition of The Nation.

(Credit: Allie Whitehead)

For NY Tug Captain, Job That Runs in Family Turns Deadly Off Long Island
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/nyregion/tugboat-captain-who-died-near...
By COREY KILGANNON
MARCH 18, 2015

A tugboat and a barge on the East River in February. Tugboats do the pushing, pulling and guiding for work boats, freighters and other vessels. CreditAndrew Lichtenstein/Corbis

UK RMT Union Warnings Of Lethal Overcrowding Ignored At Clapham South
http://www.rmt.org.uk/news/union-warnings-of-lethal-overcrowding-ignored/

13 March 2015
RMT Press Office

‎Union warnings of lethal overcrowding at "death trap" tube station were ignored by underground bosses.

Southwest Airlines Settles Whistleblower Suit By Mechanic Disciplined For Reporting Cracks in 737
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2015/02/11/southwest-airlines-set...

United Airlines Tries Scapegoating Pilots for Safety Problems

http://labornotes.org/blogs/2015/03/united-airlines-tries-scapegoating-p...

United Airlines Tries Scapegoating Pilots for Safety Problems
By Carl Finamore

A memo United Airlines leaked to the February 25 Wall Street Journal was presented as a “brutally honest” rebuke of its pilots, blaming their “lack of attention” to rules and regulations for the airline’s recent safety lapses.