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Donatus Okhomina Jr. was Palo Altos first utility employee to die in the line of duty in more than three decades. The citys appeal of Cal/OSHAs citations continues to drags on after the 2019 accident.

Donatus Okhomina Jr. was Palo Altos first utility employee to die in the line of duty in more than three decades. The citys appeal of Cal/OSHAs citations continues to drags on after the 2019 accident.

INTRODUCTION - 2021 was the first year of National Labor Relations Board under President Biden. For years, the Board’s decisions and its approach generally have swung back and...

WHITE PLAINS — Employee health and safety was a priority for the New York Power Authority in 2021, and will continue to be a top focus this year.

The devastation wrought by the pandemic has also led to an unprecedented situation in which deaths exceeded births in half of all US states in 2020. This decline in the birth-to-death ratio produced the smallest annual percentage population gain in at least a century.

How long will fossil fuels be needed to keep the lights on?

Liz Shuler and Sara Nelson are the combination the labor movement needs.

Stephen Davis plans to step down from the DuPage Airport Authority board at the end of the month after nine years as chairman. Fellow board members have chosen Herbert Getz to succeed Davis.

Last year’s longest-running strike came to an end in early January when nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, overwhelmingly voted to ratify their new contract and return to work. Seven hundred nurses had walked out over dangerous staffing conditions last March—ten months ago. (See previous Labor Notes coverage from last April and August.) In a year of

State Sen. Richard Pan unveiled legislation to tighten California's student vaccine mandate.