‘It’s all preventable’: tackling America’s workplace suicide epidemic | US news | The Guardian

The US suicide rate is the highest of any wealthy country and the pandemic highlighted work stress's effect on mental health…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/27/us-workplace-suicide-rates-pandemic

How Labor Secretary Scalia Played Chicken With Meatpacking Workers’ Lives – Mother Jones

A typical poultry, pork, or beef plant employs hundreds of people—by and large immigrants, refugees, and people of color—toiling shoulder to shoulder to dismember and break down carcasses moving down the kill line at rates as high as 390 cattle, 1,295 pigs, or 10,500 birds per hour. Meatpacking workers have always faced hazardous conditions and high injury rates, and their tight working conditions make them highly susceptible to viral pathogens. What spreads inside a meat factory doesn’t stay within its walls: By late May, rural counties that had meatpacking plants with COVID-19 outbreaks had average infection rates five times higher than the rest of rural America. As of mid-July, at least 168 meatpacking workers had died from the disease.

“It’s a terrible experiment in achieving herd immunity,” says David Michaels, a professor of occupational health at George Washington University who led the the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under Obama. By the time the pandemic runs its course, he predicts, “everyone will have become infected” at meatpacking plants. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/07/labor-eugene-scalia-meatpacking-osha-stress-carpal-tunnel-coronavirus-covid/

Bullshit is everywhere. Here's how to deal with it at work

What’s colloquially known as “bullshit” occurs when people make statements with no regard for the truth, and unfortunately, it is more prevalent than ever. Thankfully, we can all stem the production and spread of bullshit in our workplaces by applying the CRAP framework from our recent academic paper, “Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit.” The framework consists of four steps: Comprehend why bullshit exists; Recognize when it is produced; know how to Act against it; and Prevent it from occurring.
https://theconversation.com/bullshit-is-everywhere-heres-how-to-deal-with-it-at-work-135661

Talking like Trump in the workplace can get you fired - The Washington Post

While President Trump’s remark that four congresswomen of color should “go back” to their ancestral countries was rightly condemned as racist and wrong, similar comments by others have generated far more serious consequences.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/talking-like-trump-in-the-workplace-can-cost-your-employer-money-and-get-you-fired/2019/08/02/e83cd3d4-b4a6-11e9-8e94-71a35969e4d8_story.html

The White House quietly rolled back workplace safety rules during the shutdown - Vox

Public health groups are suing the Trump administration for blocking a rule requiring employers to report details of workplace injuries. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/29/18197346/trump-labor-electronic-injury-reporting-rule

Easy Ways You Can Be More Eco-Friendly at Work - Rewire:

We spend so much of our time at work, but even if you try to maintain eco-friendly habits in your personal life, you might find it tricky to remember when you're on the job. After all, you can't control everything about your workplace. .....
www.rewire.org/our-future/eco-friendly-work/

Atheist Firefighter’s Lawsuit Citing “Hostile” Workplace Can Proceed, Says Judge – Friendly Atheist

In 2016, atheist Jeffrey Queen filed an unbelievable lawsuit against the city of Bowling Green (Kentucky) based on what he witnessed while working for the fire department.....

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/07/26/atheist-firefighters-lawsuit-citing-hostile-workplace-can-proceed-says-judge/

Stop Blaming Black Women for the Maternal Health Crisis. Start Blaming American Workplaces. -- Slate

When she was 19, Cherisse Scott lost her baby. The pregnancy was unplanned, but there was no doubt in her mind that she would have the baby. She laid awake at night worrying about raising a child alone, keeping up at work, and hopefully finishing college someday. .....
https://slate.com/life/2018/01/start-blaming-american-workplaces-for-the-black-maternal-health-crisis.html