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News Release: Employer name: Ohio Gasket & Shim Company, Akron, Ohio

Speedway lacking adequate workplace violence safeguards, OSHA finds

News Release: Nov. 23, 2015 BOS 2015-217. Employer name: Speedway LLC Inc., 6020 South Salina St., Syracuse, NY 13205. Reason for inspection: An employee working alone late at night at a company gasoline station/convenience store in South Syracuse was shot in the leg on May 10, 2015, during an armed robbery. Investigation...

JA Siding Construction Services in Georgia exposed workers to dangerous falls and other safety hazards

News Release: Employer name: Jose M. Hernandez Cruz, doing business as JA Siding Construction Services LLC

Two employers cited for exposing workers to fall hazards after a worker falls to his death at a Conroe, Texas, construction site

News Release: Employers' names: Ramco Erectors Inc. and Isabel Facundo Garcia

Three commercial real estate renovators willfully expose workers to asbestos in San Antonio; fines total $112,000

News Release: Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited three Austin, Texas-based employers involved in commercial real estate renovation for exposing workers to asbestos at a residential apartment construction worksite in San Antonio. After a May 29...

OSHA cites Baton Rouge, Louisiana, business in trench collapse that killed worker

News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - As paramedics rescued a construction worker trapped under dirt from a trench collapse, his co-worker and friend, 24-year-old Isidro Martinez, was not as fortunate. Martinez, a husband and father, lost his life in the unprotected trench.

House-Senate Conference Committee Approves Framework to Improve K-12 Education

News Release: Today, the House-Senate conference committee reached agreement on a proposal to improve K-12 education and replace No Child Left Behind. The agreement represents a compromise between the House-passed Student Success Act (H.R. 5) and the Senate-passed Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (S. 1177).

House-Senate Conference Committee Approves Framework to Improve K-12 Education

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House-Senate conference committee reached agreement on a proposal to improve K-12 education and replace No Child Left Behind. The agreement represents a compromise between the House-passed Student Success Act (H.R. 5) and the Senate-passed Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (S. 1177).

Murray Leads Bicameral Letter Urging Guidance on Innovations to Help Workers Retain Retirement Savings Between Jobs

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee led a bicameral group of Congressional Members in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to encourage the Employee Benefits Security Administration...

GUN SAFETY: Murray, 19 Senators Request Report on Effectiveness of Public Health Programs Designed to Impact Gun Safety

News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: Every day on average, 55 people kill themselves with a firearm, and 46 people are shot or killed in an accident with a gun. The Washington Post reported last month that so far in 2015 there have been 43 instances where a toddler three or under has shot themselves or others, leading...

Alexander, Murray on Senate Appointment of Senate Conferees to Fix No Child Left Behind: “It’s Time to Get to Work”

News Release: All 22 Senate HELP committee members appointed as conferees

Murray Statements at Bipartisan HELP Committee Executive Session

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) submitted remarks for the record at an Executive Session to consider bipartisan legislation and nominations. At the markup, the Committee moved forward with the Stem Cell Therapeutic...

***MEDIA ADVISORY*** TOMORROW: K-12 Education Joint Conference Committee to Reconvene, Consider Amendments

News Release: On Thursday, November 19th, at 10:00 a.m., the House and Senate conference committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will hold a second meeting in HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center. At the conference committee’s next meeting, members are expected to consider amendments to the House-Senate proposed framework.

Office of Federal Student Aid Not Serving Best Interests of Students, Taxpayers

News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, chaired by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), today held a hearing to review the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student ...

Worker 'would not have died' in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, trench if employer had followed proper procedures, says OSHA

News Release: Nov. 18, 2015 BOS 2015-213. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - As Davide Nascimento worked on the installation of a sewer line in an excavation on Hazardville Road in Longmeadow on July 31, 2015, a portion of roadway above the excavation collapsed and broke a six-inch water main pipe. Water from the pipe filled the...

***MEDIA ADVISORY*** UPDATE: House-Senate Joint Conference Committee on K-12 Education to Hold First Public Meeting

News Release: Today, November 18th, at 2:30 p.m., a House and Senate conference committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will hold its first meeting in HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center. At the first meeting, members of the conference committee are expected to deliver opening statements.

Murray: Conference Committee “Another Step Closer” to Fixing Broken No Child Left Behind