Worker Justice
Colorado Agricultural Worker Advocates Continue Fight to Uphold State’s Workers’ Rights in Latest Intervention
“Today’s intervention underscores the ongoing importance of protecting farmworkers’ access to vital services, which is clearly protected under the law.”
Voting With Your Pitchfork: Beyond the Consumer-Worker Binary
As much as our current food system would have us believe that we are all primarily and merely consumers, other roles we play — as workers, advocates, and community members…
Representing Isolated Farmworkers
Every person, regardless of where they come from, what they do for work, or where they live, should have access to fundamental services like healthcare, education, and legal help. As…
Colorado Agribusinesses Dismiss Challenge to Workers’ Rights Statute
In a victory for Colorado farmworkers, on Friday, February 24th, Colorado agribusinesses dismissed the case they had filed in federal court seeking to invalidate a Colorado law granting farmworkers the…
Investigate Midwest: In first test before appeals court, important worker safety law is affirmed, with notable caveat
In the pandemic’s early days, employees of a Pennsylvania food processing plant believed they faced an immediate threat. Their employer, they alleged, crowded them together and didn’t provide enough masks…
Third Circuit Court Affirms Legal Tool for Worker Safety
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion in Doe v. Scalia on the question of workers’ ability to sue the Occupational Safety and Health…
Reuters: Workers can’t force safety agency to do inspections, court rules
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said workers cannot go to court to force the federal workplace safety regulator to act after it determines that alleged hazards do not present…
Bloomberg Law: Third Circuit Rejects Covid-19 Imminent Danger OSHA Claim
A group of meatpacking plant workers lost their bid for a court order compelling the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to protect them from Covid-19 at their workplace, after the…
Law360: 3rd Circ. Says Work Safety Suits Don’t Outlast OSHA Probes
A worker who sues an employer over dangerous job conditions must drop their lawsuit if the Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigates but doesn’t find workplace safety violations, the Third…