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Health care workers sickened by SARS-like virus
NEW YORK (AP) — Global health officials say a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to two health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia. They say the virus has likely already spread person-to-person in...Tags: Saudi Arabia, France, Healthcare Policies, Pneumonia, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Mich. unions remember workers killed on the job
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Union leaders, workers and lawmakers are calling for better protections to prevent workplace injuries and deaths in Michigan. Michigan State AFL-CIO President Karla Swift led the event at Wentworth Park on Monday for...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Memorial Day, AFL-CIO, Rick Snyder
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Michigan firefighters seek workers' comp for cancer
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In May 2009, then 36-year-old Sterling Heights firefighter Chris Slezak, went to his doctor on a Monday because he felt out of shape and worn out. By that Friday, Slezak, who was active and healthy his entire life, got his...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System, Chemotherapy, Politics, Prices
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Feds probing Indiana's workplace safety agency
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The federal government's workplace safety agency says it's investigating its Indiana counterpart agency. Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesman Scott Allen tells The Indianapolis Star ( http://indy.st/10Q1SKn )...Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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UPDATE: Indiana panel drops school staff guns requirement
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Local school boards would have to decide every year whether they wanted to have gun-carrying employees at their schools under a proposal approved Tuesday by an Indiana House committee. The House Ways and Means Committee...
Tags: Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Health and Safety at School, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Heat on Benton Harbor Public Safety Department after house fire
WSBT-TVBENTON HARBOR, Mich. – "Fix it, before someone else gets hurt or killed." That's the message from the Michigan Firefighters Union president about the Benton Harbor's Public Safety Department. The department is under a microscope following a...Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Politics, Safety of Citizens, Government
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Benton Harbor fire 911 calls, injured firefighter's family responds
WSBT-TVBENTON HARBOR – Dramatic 911 calls from eyewitnesses begging for help for a Benton Harbor firefighter injured in a house fire. LISTEN TO THE CALLS HERE The calls are from March 14 when veteran firefighter, Lieutenant Doug Bell, was trapped and...Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Fires, Politics, Safety of Citizens, Government
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Federal cuts hit Ind. jobless, National Guard
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana agencies are cutting jobless benefits, furloughing National Guard members and losing food funds for the Women Infants and Children program because of the automatic federal budget cuts, officials said Monday. The state...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Norfolk Southern ordered to pay fired worker $438K
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A federal agency has ordered Norfolk Southern Railway Co. to rehire an Indiana employee fired in 2010 and pay him nearly $438,000 in damages. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the Fort Wayne-based crane...Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Career and Workplace, Employees, Norfolk Southern Corporation
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REPORT: IOSHA inspections, fines are down
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The state agency charged with keeping Indiana workplaces safe inspects fewer than a third of the businesses it did in the 1980s, issues fines for serious violations that average less than half the national rate and issued...Tags: Career and Workplace, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Fines, AFL-CIO, Employment
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Lawsuit pending on domestic partner benefits ban
DETROIT (AP) — People who lost domestic partner benefits under a 2011 Michigan law say they're feeling the pinch as they wait months for a judge to decide whether the ban affecting public school and local government employees is unconstitutional....
Tags: Civil and Public Service, Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Career and Workplace, Justice System
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Class-action suit could involve 1,700 residents near plant
South Bend TribuneA federal judge has granted class-action status to an environmental lawsuit concerning a controversial wood recycling facility in Elkhart, creating about 1,700 potential plaintiffs in the case. Residents of neighborhoods surrounding the facility at 29861...Tags: Trials, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Justice System, Judges, Laws
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