workplace conditions

September 10, 2012 - Sanderson Farms of Mississippi just posted a 22 percent jump in revenue and announced plans to build a new plant in North Carolina. Meanwhile, workers at its Hazelhurt, Miss. plant are protesting poor working conditions.

August 6, 2012 - The number of workplaces with egregiously bad safety records has doubled in the past year. OSHA's effort to focus on these employers is laudable -- but is it enough?

June 14, 2012 - Perseverance paid off for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in North Carolina as Reynolds finally agreed to meet with the union to discuss tobacco pickers' abysmal work conditions.

May 25, 2012 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed dramatically increasing line speeds at poultry plants for the first time in 50 years -- without studying the effects on workers. An extended comment period on the new rule closes this month.

December 28, 2008 - A week after a coal ash lagoon failed at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Eastern Tennessee and covered half a square mile with more than a billion gallons of toxic sludge, authorities are finally getting around to issuing public warnings about the possible dangers presented by the poo