health and safety

NLRB Reviews Wave of Truck Driver Workplace Retaliation Claims
https://www.trucks.com/2017/03/07/truck-drivers-nlrb-claims/
CLARISSA HAWES MARCH 7, 2017 LABOR

Humberto Canales, a driver for XPO Cartage. (Photo: Barbara Maynard/Trucks.com)

Chicago Capitalist Mayor Emanuel Rahm's CTA Port-A-Potties Are So Dirty Some Bus Drivers Wear Diapers, ATU 308 Union Says
"“The current portable bathrooms the CTA bought are the bottom-dollar model, they don’t even have running water or heat, and often the hand sanitizer is empty or broken. This is an absolute disrespect to the workers who move nearly 1 million Chicagoans every day,"

Sunken tugboat a consequence of letting foreign crews in Canadian waters, says ILWU Canada union
'We'll let the coast guard know 'hey, we're in trouble, we need help,' because it's our coastline'
ILWU and Other Unions Speak Out
http://ht.ly/UBAz307Y05o
By Andrew Kurjata, CBC News Posted: Jan 12, 2017 2:27 PM PT Last Updated: Jan 12, 2017 2:27 PM PT

UK RMT ASLEF Southern Rail strike: It's all about safety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLbAaMommXU
Published on Dec 21, 2016
As railworkers in the RMT and ASLEF try and curb Southern's disastrous running of the franchise which is seriously jeopardising the safety of passengers, proof that it's the Government - NOT the unions - who are turning this into a political dispute.

SF Mayor SF Ed Lee's MTA Terrorizing TWU 250A Drivers "But other employees wrote that many are afraid to call in sick because of management crackdowns. “People go to work sick so they don’t get on the sick abusive list,”
http://www.sfexaminer.com/city-controller-report-scathes-muni-chronic-ab...
City Controller report scathes Muni for chronic absenteeism