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August 22, 2013
Opening Doors of Opportunity
It had been only seven weeks since President Kennedy's death when President Lyndon B. Johnson went before Congress to deliver a sweeping vision for economic and civil rights reforms during his 1964 State of the Union address. The primary work before them would be the continuation of Kennedy's policies "not because of our sorrow or sympathy," Johnson said, "but because they are right." Many of the bold economic measures that he identified increased investments in job training, education grants, an expanded national volunteer service, rural and urban renewal programs would be enacted when Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act 49 years ago this week, on Aug. 20. A centerpiece of the law was the creation of the Job Corps, which today serves 60,000 young people a year and has served some 1.5 million since its creation. Overseen by the Labor Department, Job Corps provides a second chance and renewed
hope, opening doors of opportunity that had been bolted shut. At the time, Johnson said the act that created Job Corps would provide "the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work, and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity." Today, graduates launch careers in everything from auto maintenance to IT, from health care to hospitality, from construction to finance. On Aug. 20, Secretary Perez commemorated the 49th anniversary of the program by breaking ground on the newest Job Corps center in Manchester, N.H.
• Watch LBJ's 1964 State of the Union
• Find Out More About Job Corps Opportunities
• View the Centennial Timeline
• View the Centennial Video
Myth: The Affordable Care Act harms small businesses.
Not true: Hundreds of thousands of small-business owners have taken advantage of the law's tax credit worth up to 35 percent of their premium contribution this year, and increasing to 50 percent in 2014 to help them provide coverage for their employees. For small businesses that buy coverage on their own and are looking for better deals, the law will provide better options through the Marketplace starting in 2014. And the Small Business Health Options Program will allow small employers to pool together to access more affordable plans. Because of the ACA, millions of small businesses, as well as their employees and customers, are enjoying better choices, more control and greater certainty.
• Learn More About ACA
• Get Business Guidance
• Visit the Marketplace
Each week, this space will bring you the best from our (Work in Progress) blog.
• For New Hampshire Youth, Job Corps Offers New Path to Opportunity: In this post, which first appeared as an op-ed in the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, Secretary Perez reflects on the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which established a wide-ranging series of employment training programs, including Job Corps, which celebrated its 49th anniversary this week. In Manchester, N.H., to break ground on the newest Job Corps center, Perez writes about the life-changing impact that Job Corps has made on the 1.5 million young people it has served in its history and celebrates the potential opportunities for success that will soon be available to New Hampshire youth. "As a matter of the nation's economic competitiveness and its commitment to social justice," Perez writes of the young people that the program is designed to serve, "we must build for them ladders of opportunity, with sturdy rungs that they can reach through hard work, ingenuity and initiative."
• Setting the Wheels of Civil Rights in Motion: Though she was just a child growing up on the other side of the country, the March on Washington 50 years ago had a stirring effect on Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy Kathy Martinez and her family. Martinez, who was born blind, remembers how the march inspired her deep commitment to principles of inclusion and empowerment and informed the emerging movement for disability rights that she and her colleagues carry on to this day in their work at the department.
• Tearing Down Walls That Keep Veterans From Good Jobs: Among the many obstacles that veterans face when transitioning from military service to the civilian workforce is the disparity between military skills and the civilian credentialing and licensing programs in our states. In recent years, much progress has been made in this area, with many states adopting strategies that will help veterans navigate the process more smoothly. Tony Camilli, a strategic outreach specialist for the Veterans' Employment and Training Service, discusses why these efforts are so important for veterans and what the department is doing to play its part.
Reduction in Fatal Work Injuries
The preliminary results from the National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2012 were released on Aug. 22 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last year, 4,383 workers died from work-related injuries, down from a final count of 4,693 fatal work injuries in 2011. This is the second lowest preliminary total since it was first conducted in 1992. "I am greatly encouraged by the reduction in workplace fatalities, even in a growing economy. It is a testament to the hard work of employers, unions, health and safety professionals and the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Mine Safety and Health Administration," said Secretary Perez. "But to me these aren't just numbers and data they are fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, who will never come home again." The department, he added, "will continue to engage with employers to make sure that these fatality numbers go down further. No worker should lose their life for a paycheck."
• Read the Statement
• Read the Preliminary Results
Youth Unemployment Declines
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on August 20 that more than 2 million youth aged 16 to 24 gained employment between April and July 2013, the month when summer jobs are highest. The percentage of youth employed in July 2013 was 50.7 percent, an increase from last year's rate of 50.2 percent. The bureau also reported that the unemployment rate among this group was 16.3 percent in July 2013, the third consecutive annual decline and down 3 percentage points from its July peak of 19.1 percent in July 2010.
• Read the News Release
Marking a Pension Milestone
Before Aug. 23, 1984, women who left work to raise families lost all the retirement benefits they had earned. That was one issue fixed by the passage of the Retirement Equity Act. As the pension and employee benefit counsel for the House Education and Labor Committee in 1984, Phyllis C. Borzi played an important role in drafting the act's historic pension protections for U.S. workers and their families. The act also lowered the minimum age requirement for pension plan participation and required spousal consent for workers to waive survivor benefits. Now the assistant secretary of labor for employee benefits security, Borzi says, "I'm proud of the role I played."
• Read the Bill
• Learn More About Pensions
Job Corps Students Lend a Hand
Landscape students at California's Inland Empire Job Corps Center recently put their skills to work mowing, trimming, raking, edging and weeding the grounds of the Rowe Branch Library in San Bernardino, Calif. Instructor Nick Schneider said that, because of local budget constraints, maintenance by city crews was difficult to come by. Schneider said Inland's actions "will help free the city's parks and recreation employees to take care of other much-needed areas." DeChaunce Veasley, one of Inland Empire's students, said, "I think when other people see what we have done, it will inspire them to take pride in their community." Student Elizabeth Jansky added, "We did our very best to make the library look as pretty as possible. It feels good to use what we have learned at the center to help our community."
• Learn About Job Corps Recruitment
• View the Slideshow
Women in Construction
An alliance focused at protecting women in construction was signed on Aug. 21 between the National Association of Women in Construction and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. During the two-year agreement, the alliance will develop training resources on musculoskeletal and sanitation hazards, personal protective equipment selection and other issues specific to female construction workers. "Safety and health problems in construction create barriers to women entering and remaining in this field," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels. "Through this alliance, we will work together to forge innovative solutions to improve the safety, health and working conditions for women in the construction trades and retain them during a critical time of job shortages in this industry." A signing ceremony with NAWIC representatives was held on the eve of the public launch of OSHA's Women in Construction website.
• Read About the Alliance
• Read the News Release
• Visit the Women in Construction Web Page
Mine Rescue Competition
Miners across the country hope they will never have to conduct a mine rescue operation after a mine accident, but that doesn't mean they don't spend time preparing for one. Nearly 30 local mine rescue competitions have been held this year, including the 50th Annual Pennsylvania State Mine Rescue, First Aid, Pre-shift, and Bench Contests held Aug. 20-22 in Carmichaels, Pa. Fifteen teams from Pennsylvania and West Virginia comprised of more than 100 miners were on hand for remarks by Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Joseph A. Main during the competition, which took place at Carmichaels Jr./Sr. High School. The competition, which includes emergency scenarios posed to the teams, is designed to better prepare rescue personnel for the possibility of a mine catastrophe. The contest comes just over 11 years after the July 2002 Quecreek mine rescue in Somerset County, Pa., in which nine miners trapped underground for more than 78 hours were rescued.
• View the Slideshow
Self-Employment Aid in Oregon
The department awarded a grant of $332,576 to Oregon on August 19 to assist the state in its efforts to expand and enhance its Self-Employment Assistance program. The funding will be used to implement intensive training and one-on-one counseling to assist aspiring entrepreneurs in launching their companies. Participants will receive financial assistance equal to their UI benefit while they receive important entrepreneur training and access to resources that can help them start their business. The program is available on a voluntary basis and open to Oregon residents eligible for unemployment insurance.
Green Career Options in Boston
The Women's Bureau's Boston regional office held an Aug. 21 roundtable focusing on career opportunities for women in the green and clean energy fields. It brought together 35 representatives from government, academia and business plus students and job seekers. Speakers outlined innovative efforts such as the University of Massachusetts' green internship program, and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center's use of paid internships. Attendees shared their personal stories of how they obtained their jobs in the green and clean energy sectors, and several participants expressed interest in mentoring and networking for advancement in green careers.
• View the Slideshow
• Download the Green Jobs Guide
Symposium on Black Lung
Workers in coal mines continue to suffer exposure to respirable coal dust, which can result in pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease, a debilitating illness that can kill. On Aug. 22, the 2013 Central Appalachian Regional Work Safety & Health Symposium focused on efforts to end the dreaded disease. In keynote remarks, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Joseph A. Main touched on the department's initiatives, including MSHA's "End Black Lung ACT NOW" campaign, and a proposed rule to lower miners' exposure to respirable coal mine dust. "While we have made progress and are moving mine safety and health in the right direction, there is much more to do to provide miners the opportunity to go to work, put in their shift and return home safe and healthy each day," said Main. "That is our mission and our goal. Together we can make that happen. We owe the nation's miners that much."
• Learn About End Black Lung ACT Now
ERISA Council to Meet
An open meeting of the ERISA Advisory Council will take place at department headquarters in Washington, D.C., Aug. 27-29. Advisory Council members will hear testimony and receive an update on Employee Benefits Security Administration activities. The meeting will cover successful retirement plan communications for various population segments, locating missing and lost participants, and private-sector pension de-risking and participant protections.
• Read the News Release
• Learn About the ERISA Advisory Council
Alliance Outreach in LA
Partners in the Employment, Education and Outreach alliance welcomed Laura Fortman, principal deputy administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, at a meeting held at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles. The alliance is one of the department's most successful outreach efforts and the meeting provided Fortman with the opportunity to meet representatives of federal and state agencies, Mexican and Central American consulates and nonprofit organizations that make up the EMPLEO alliance. The alliance facilitates vital workplace protections for the Spanish-speaking community in Southern California. Since the program's inception in 2004, $14 million in back wages has been collected for more than 9,000 workers.
Weekly UI Claims
The department reported that the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial Unemployment Insurance claims was 336,000 for the week ending August 17, an increase of 13,000 from the previous week. The four-week moving average was 330,500, down 2,250 from the previous week's revised average.
Upcoming Deadlines & Events
Open Funding Opportunities
EBSA The Affordable Care Act: How Will It Affect You?
• August 29 Washington, DC
EBSA Health Benefits Laws Compliance Assistance Seminar
• September 11 Madison, WI
OFCCP Common Problem Areas for Federal Contractors
• September 21 Chicago, IL
OFCCP Compliance Assistance for New/Small Contractors
• September 12 Richmond, VA
OFCCP Construction: Construction 16 Steps
• September 10 Chicago, IL
OFCCP Everything You Want to Know About Adverse Impact, Records and Record Retention
• September 10 Dallas, TX
OFCCP Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws
• August 27 Denver, CO
OFCCP Meet and Greet for Federal Contractors & CBOs
• September 11 New Orleans, LA
OFCCP National Origin Discrimination
• September 19 Omaha, NE
OFCCP Open House for Community Based Organizations and Federal Contractors
• September 19 Richmond, VA
OFCCP Outreach and Recruitment
• August 27 Chicago, IL
OFCCP What to Expect During an OFCCP Audit/ Overview of Sections 503 and 4212
• September 20 Columbus, OH
OFCCP Preparing Small and New Supply and Service Contractors for an OFCCP Audit
• August 30 Milwaukee, WI
• September 4 Milwaukee, WI
WHD Understanding Special Minimum Wages under Section 14(c) of the FLSA
• September 17 Providence, RI
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Celebrating Job Corps With an Eye on the Future
On the very day that the Job Corps program was established 49 years ago, Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and New Hampshire leaders lined up with shovels for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the new Manchester Job Corps Center. In his remarks at the Aug. 20 event, Perez invoked the success of Job Corps as one of the nation's most enduring training programs for disadvantaged youth and said the program's past should be celebrated "with an eye on the future, right here in front of us, toward the young people that it will empower and will continue to empower and the lives it will change and the businesses it will help right here in the Granite State." The secretary was joined at the groundbreaking by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, Gov. Maggie Hassan and Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas. The new Job Corps center is scheduled to be completed in December 2014 and enroll 150 students by June 2015. The secretary then visited Manchester Community College, toured an advanced manufacturing training facility made possible through a 2011 department grant with college president Susan Huard, and participated in a roundtable discussion with employers and students about the importance of skills development. Over the last few years, Perez said, the Obama administration has made unprecedented investments in community colleges because it believes they are at the center of today's demand-driven approach to workforce development.
• Read the Secretary's Blog Post
• View the Slideshow
• Learn About Job Corps
Las Vegas Listening and Learning Tour
On his 29th day as secretary of labor, Thomas E. Perez traveled from east to west as he continued his "house calls" in Las Vegas. The Nevada AFL-CIO welcomed Sen. Harry Reid and Secretary Perez to their Constitutional Convention on Aug. 21. In their remarks, both emphasized the important role organized labor has served in helping workers achieve the American dream. The hardworking staff of the 2,600 American Jobs Centers across the country is also helping to create ladders of opportunity, by connecting the unemployed and underemployed with job search tools and job training. Director LaVerne Kelley introduced the secretary to center clients, including O'Mar Williams, an underemployed father of four who recently obtained both his commercial driver's license and a job with Werner Trucking Co. Because the unemployed are often uninsured, job center staff are uniquely positioned to share information about the health-care exchanges that will open for business Oct. 1. Perez helped lead a webinar, viewed by more than 850 American Job Center staffers from across the country, on the features of healthcare.gov. He later walked a job center client through the process of shopping for health insurance using the website. Then it was on to a tasty visit at the Culinary Academy, a best-in-class partnership between Las Vegas employers and the Culinary Workers Union. At the academy, Perez learned the secrets behind making a hotel bed in less than 5 minutes; sampled fresh ravioli crafted by students training to be chefs, and spoke with students practicing proper serving techniques. Perez ended the day with a roundtable discussion with local business leaders. The group shared their thoughts regarding how comprehensive immigration reform would positively impact their businesses, and the urgent need for congressional action.
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American Job Centers Preparing for New Health Insurance Options
"The unemployed are very often the uninsured as well," said Secretary Perez during a webinar with American Job Center staff and employment advocates from around the country. With the enrollment period for the new health care exchanges to begin on Oct. 1, 2013, American Job Centers are preparing staff to provide their clients with critical information about coverage options, how to enroll for coverage, and insurance subsidies. The training webinar was hosted by the Department of Labor and included a presentation from the Department of Health and Human Services. Perez, while touring an American Job Center in Las Vegas, Nev., also provided participants in the webinar with a demonstration of how to access and use the healthcare.gov website to assist clients.
• Visit healthcare.gov
Emphasizing Grain Handling Safety
With the summer agricultural season in full swing, and the Department of Agriculture predicting a record-breaking corn crop in 2013, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration continues to educate the agri-business community and workers about dangers in the grain handling industry, especially in the storage of grain. "A worker can be completely submerged in a storage bin in less than 60 seconds. More than half of all engulfments result in death by suffocation," said Nick Walters, OSHA regional administrator for six Midwestern states. After 26 workers died in 2012, OSHA developed a local emphasis program across 25 states to address the recurring number of preventable injuries and deaths that occur each year. The major hazards in the industry include engulfment, falls, auger entanglement, struck by, combustible dust explosions and electrocution. In July, a 55-year-old worker was fatally engulfed in a grain bin in Sidney, Ill., among other incidents this year prompting investigations and underscoring the urgency of OSHA's grain bin safety initiative.
• Read One of the Regional News Releases
• Read More about Grain Handling Safety
• Download the Grain Handling Safety Poster
News You Can Use
Webcast: Workers, Families and the Affordable Care Act
How does the Affordable Care Act affect you? The Employee Benefits Security Administration will host a webcast from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT on Aug. 29 to help workers and families understand the impacts of health reform. EBSA staff will discuss the ACA's effects on employment-based group health plans. Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services will explain how to purchase coverage through the new Health Insurance Marketplace. The webcast will also cover new consumer protections that will become available in 2014.
• Register Online
• Read the News Release
• Learn About the ACA
Around DOL
Secretary Wilson Descendants Visit Department Headquarters
The family of William B. Wilson, the first secretary of labor, marked their inaugural visit to the Frances Perkins Building during a recent trip to Washington. Secretary Wilson's great-great-grandson, Daniel, is moving to Alexandria, Va., and preparing for a new job at the Department of Defense. Daniel and his parents, William B. Wilson IV and Jean, pored over archival documents, books and photographs from Secretary Wilson's administration in the Wirtz Labor Library and at the William B. Wilson kiosk. The family's connections to the Labor Department don't end there. William B. Wilson IV attended high school with Secretary Perez's brother, Rafael, in Buffalo, N.Y. William B. Wilson III is still living and resides in Buffalo.
• Read About Secretary Wilson
Back to School Means School Supplies and Backpacks
The D.C. Chapter of the International Association of Workforce Professionals sponsored "Operation Backpack," a community service project to assist children from disadvantaged homes so that they start the school year prepared. The local IAWP Chapter, with the support of generous contributions from department employees, provided 28 backpacks filled with all of the supplies needed for 3rd and 4th graders. In addition to the completed backpacks, two boxes of school supplies were collected to contribute to other backpacks and delivered to the Central Union Mission on Aug. 16.
DOL Working for You
Funding Leads Alabamian to Health Care Career
Alabama's Precious Perdue wanted to have a better life and be able to provide for her two daughters, so she decided that a health-care career would be the ticket to her success. Perdue enrolled in a three-week life skills and career readiness training program offered by departmental grantee the Dannon Project. It gave her occupational classroom training towards a career as a certified nursing assistant in phlebotomy. Thanks also to funding from the Employment and Training Administration's Young Parent Demonstration program, Dannon set up Perdue with jobs as a phlebotomist at two local health-care centers. "I love helping doctors find out what is wrong with the patients," Perdue said.
DOL in Action
Trustees of Union Pension, Other Funds to Repay Nearly $2.3 Million
The trustees of the pension plan, annuity fund and vacation fund of Exhibition Employees Local 829 of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees in New York have repaid $2,256,817 to the funds, with an additional $50,000 scheduled to be paid, as a result of a consent judgment. The department first filed suit against the defendants in 2012, alleging numerous violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act following an investigation by the department's Employee Benefits Security Administration. "This case involved pervasive and serious diversions of retirement plan assets," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security Phyllis C. Borzi. "Trustees must carry out their fiduciary duties solely in the interests of plan participants who have invested their funds and trust in them."
Ohio Auto Parts Plant Cited for Multiple Serious Violations
Okamoto Sandusky Manufacturing LLC has been cited for 15 health and safety violations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration at its Sandusky, Ohio, vinyl automotive products manufacturing facility. OSHA initiated the inspection after receiving a complaint and has proposed fines of $58,500. Fourteen violations were deemed serious and included failing to conduct periodic inspections or training for the lockout/tag out program, not developing an emergency response plan and training, lack of machine guarding on rollers and conveyors, and failing to implement comprehensive respiratory protection and hearing conservation programs.
Inspection Finds Safety Hazards at Texas Senior Living Center
Williamsburg Village Healthcare Campus, a senior living center near Dallas, was cited for seven serious safety violations and proposed penalties of $46,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. A variety of safety hazards were found at the campus' York Drive facility in DeSoto, Texas, during an inspection begun on June 6. It was conducted under OSHA's national emphasis program for nursing and residential care facilities, which is focused on protecting workers from serious safety and health hazards that are common in medical industries.
• Read the News Release
• Learn About Safety in the Health Care Industry
Florida Company Failed to Pay Overtime, Investigation Finds
C&B Electrical Contractors of Florida Inc. has agreed to pay $124,638 in back wages to 59 workers following an investigation by the Wage and Hour Division that found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Investigators from the Jacksonville District Office determined that C&B Electrical Contractors failed to pay overtime to employees working more than 40 hours in a workweek. The company paid employees on a piece rate, but not at one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40. Additionally, the employer failed to maintain accurate records of hours worked and payments made to its employees.
Railway Companies to Pay $263,000 in Work-related Injury Cases
Two subsidiaries of Canadian National Railway have been ordered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to pay more than $263,000 in back wages, interest, attorney's fees, compensatory and punitive damages to two employees who were disciplined for reporting work-related injuries, in violation of the Federal Railroad Safety Act. One employee will also be reinstated to his position. The employees worked for Illinois Central Railroad Co. and Wisconsin Central Ltd., wholly-owned subsidiaries of Canadian National Railway.
New Jersey Manufacturer Cited for Repeat Worker Hazards
Royal Aluminum Co. Inc., a vinyl window manufacturer, has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 18 alleged safety and health violations, including three repeat, at its Newark, N.J., facility. OSHA opened the inspection in June in response to a complaint alleging hazards. The repeat violations were due to the company's failure to implement a hearing conservation program for workers exposed to noise above 85 decibels, implement a written hazard communication program for workers using hazardous chemicals, and train workers on the hazards of the chemicals involved in their duties. Penalties of $57,400 have been proposed.
International Union to Conduct New Election
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Upper Marlboro, Md., has agreed to conduct new nominations and a new election for the offices of international president, general secretary-treasurer and eight general vice presidents under Office of Labor-Management Standards supervision. An OLMS investigation of a February 2013 election revealed several issues. The union failed to provide notice of nomination to the membership regarding the nomination of international officers; local lodges did not provide notice of their nomination meetings to all members; and members were denied a reasonable opportunity to nominate candidates. The new election must be held before June 2014.
New York Manufacturer Faulted for New and Recurring Hazards
New and recurring safety hazards have resulted in $69,244 in proposed fines for a Plattsburgh, N.Y., manufacturer of Fiberglas-reinforced plastic panels. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Solve Composites LLC for seven repeat and three serious violations. The recurring hazards include explosion hazards from an inadequate system to collect and dispose of combustible dust, and also fire, chemical and electrical hazards. New hazards include inadequate safeguards for workers exposed to high noise levels.
Employment Assistance for Wisconsin Residents
Approximately 220 workers and displaced homemakers affected by the closure of the Kewaunee Power Station in Kewaunee, Wis., will benefit from an $807,193 National Emergency Grant. The grant, awarded on Aug. 21 to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, will be administered by the Bay Area Workforce Development Board Inc. Under the grant, eligible individuals will have access to services, including career and skill assessments, job search assistance, support services and training. "These workers have specialized job skills needed in the nuclear power industry, and this federal funding will provide a range of re-employment services and opportunities," said acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training Eric Seleznow.
Inspection Reveals Hazards for TSA Workers at Boston Airport
Following an inspection at Boston's Logan International Airport, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued 14 notices of unsafe or unhealthful working conditions to the Transportation Security Administration. OSHA's inspection found TSA employees exposed to various hazards at inspection rooms, break rooms and other locations where TSA employees worked. The hazards included unguarded machinery, misused electrical equipment, defective or deficient ladders and lack of protective clothing.
Lawsuit Filed Against Michigan Farm for Migrant Violations
The department is taking legal action to protect migrant workers at Kaleva, Mich.-based Grossnickle Farms following an investigation conducted by its Wage and Hour Division. A complaint has been filed in federal court against the farming operation and its two owners, Allen and Corinne Grossnickle, alleging violations of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for failing to maintain migrant agricultural housing facilities and the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage and record-keeping provisions. Grossnickle Farms is a strawberry, asparagus and cucumber farm. The company had 49 migrant and seasonal farm workers during the 2012 cucumber harvest.
Logging Company Cited for Tree Felling Hazards Following Fatality
Best Logging, a company based in Ripley, W.Va., has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 14 alleged serious and four other-than-serious violations including tree felling hazards found at a Rock Castle, W.Va., work site. OSHA's February inspection was initiated following the fatality of a worker, who was struck by a tree during logging operations. Cited violations include the company's failure to ensure employees wore proper protection and boots while operating a chain saw and performing logging operations, provide training to employees involved in logging operations, and develop and implement a written Hazard Communication Program. The company faces $39,000 in proposed fines.
Storm Recovery Grant Announced for West Virginia
A $250,000 National Emergency Grant announced on Aug. 19 will assist West Virginians with cleanup and recovery efforts following severe storms and flooding that struck the state on June 13. The funds, awarded to WorkForce West Virginia, will be used to create temporary jobs for eligible individuals who will assist with the cleanup and recovery efforts.
Pipefitting Manufacturer Faces Fines for Workplace Hazards
Pipefitting manufacturer Flowline, a division of Ezeflow USA Inc., has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 12 alleged serious safety and health violations at the company's New Castle, Pa., facility. OSHA's February inspection was prompted by a complaint and resulted in $48,000 in proposed penalties. The serious violations include workers not provided with personal protective equipment for the eyes, face, hands and body, inadequate machine guarding, and a lack of lockout/tagout procedures to prevent inadvertent machine activation. Flowline manufactures stainless steel, aluminum, and nickel alloy corrosion resistant butt weld pipe fittings.
Salt Plant Workers Exposed to Chemical Hazards
Cooper Natural Resources was cited for 13 safety violations and proposed penalties of $58,100 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing workers to chemical hazards at its Loop, Texas, salt manufacturing plant. The complaint inspection, which began in March, was initiated under the agency's complaint process and expanded to the Process Safety Management Covered Chemical Facilities National Emphasis Program. PSM encompasses a detailed set of requirements and procedures employers must follow to address hazards proactively that are associated with processes and equipment that use large amounts of hazardous chemicals. This case involved the use of anhydrous ammonia. Seven of the 12 serious violations involve deficiencies in PSM.
Corn Mill Employer Cited, Worker Fatally Asphyxiated in Grain Bin Silo
In February, a worker inside a grain silo, attempting to move clumped corn byproducts, was engulfed, asphyxiated and died. Following the death, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Azteca Milling LP in Edinburg, Texas, for seven serious safety violations. The serious violations include failing to provide an adequate emergency action plan; train workers about entering the grain silo; issue a permit for silo entry; test the atmosphere condition prior to silo entry; provide a body harness or lifelines that limit the worker from sinking further than waist-deep; provide an observer stationed outside of the grain silo for assistance; and provide suitable equipment for rescue operations.
Candy Maker Failed to Protect Workers From Ammonia Exposure
Russell Stover Candies Inc. was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for eight serious safety violations with proposed penalties totaling $44,005 for exposing workers to chemical hazards at its candy manufacturing plant in Corsicana, Texas. The May inspection came under the agency's Process Safety Management Covered Chemicals National Emphasis Program. Some of the PSM violations include failing to confirm that process equipment complies with recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices, compile written process safety information for ammonia relief system header and emergency cutouts and establish and implement written procedures to maintain the ongoing mechanical integrity of the process equipment.
Lumber Manufacturer Failed to Train on Combustible Dust Hazards
Keadle Lumber Enterprises Inc. has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 10 serious safety and health violations following an April inspection at the manufacturer's facility in Thomaston, Ga. The serious violations include the company's failure to train workers on the hazards associated with combustible dust; ensure that shavings, dust and wood chips did not accumulate in the work area; ensure the dust collector system was grounded and bonded to prevent an explosion hazard and not posting danger signage to warn workers of a confined space. OSHA initiated the inspection as part of its national emphasis program on amputations and regional emphasis program on noise hazards. Penalties of $46,970 have been proposed.
Lead Abatement Company Exposes Workers to Hazards
Penn Hills, Pa.-based N.E.J. Abatement Group Inc. has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with six serious violations involving lead hazards at a Pittsburgh work site. An April inspection was prompted by a referral from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and conducted by OSHA under its National Emphasis Program on Lead. The violations include exposure to lead above the permissible exposure limit, a lack of adequate engineering and administrative controls, lack of a lead compliance program, and failure to conduct initial biological monitoring. Penalties of $16,800 have been proposed.
Manufacturer Cited After Worker Fatally Crushed
Hagel Metal Fabrication Inc., has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 12 safety and health violations after a 23-year-old worker was fatally crushed on Feb. 22 by an automated laser-cutting machine at the East Peoria, Ill., metal manufacturing plant. OSHA has placed Hagel Metal Fabrication in the Severe Violator Enforcement Program. The violations cited include bypassing safeguards on two laser-cutting machines and the failures to lock out sources of hazardous machine energy.
Lack of Machine Guarding Found at Dayton Superior Corp.
Dayton Superior Corp. of Braselton, Ga., has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for two repeat and five serious safety and health violations following a complaint received concerning workplace hazards at the manufacturing facility. The repeat violations were cited for the employer's failure to provide machine guarding against in-going nip points on the press machine and on the point of operation on several pieces of equipment throughout the plant. Other violations include failing to protect workers against sparks; perform periodic inspections of the energy control procedures with authorized workers and not maintaining a certification of inspection for the presses. Penalties of $80,025 have been proposed.
Chemical Manufacturer in Georgia Faces Penalties for Safety Violations
Biolab Inc., a manufacturer of pool chemical products, has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with one repeat and six serious safety violations following a March inspection at the company's facility in Conyers, Ga. The repeat violation involves the employer exposing workers to chlorine above the ceiling limit. The serious violations include the employer exposing workers to electrical hazards from openings in a junction box and electrical panels, failing to provide machine guarding on a chain and sprocket and not providing training for workers required to operate powered industrial trucks. Penalties of $46,250 have been proposed.
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Alan, there's ample evidence that some manufacturers systematically exaggerated coverage. The best catalog claims can do is set an upper bound. The older a catalog is, the more likely it is to mislead. Modern claims backed up by MTF curves are credible, old ones aren't.
You're right, anecdotal information is very hard to evaluate. Unfortunately so are the claims made in sales material.
I know that you've corresponded with Eric, he's mentioned you to me.
To move this discussion to another, less personally painful field, I know an aquarist who decided to compile a list of validly-published names of fishes in a group. Who and what the group is don't matter. He worked hard, did a lot of well-done bibliographic digging, published list after list after list. I thought it was a waste. Having a fish (in the group, of course) in one hand and a list of names in the other with no way of matching struck me as useless. Having a fish in hand with a name on the list attached with no way of telling whether the name fit also seemed useless.
To get back to cases, making an uncritical compilation of marketing claims is probably great fun but something more informative would be more useful.

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One fact that I don't see mentioned as frequently in this discussion is that people in this generation are communicating in writing much more than previous generations. Blogs, Facebook, email, Twitter. It all adds up. So it's nice to see this fact mentioned in this Wired article.
Lunsford is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, where she has organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples—everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. Her conclusions are stirring.People used to phone. Now they're writing. And the writing isn't half bad, possibly because the entire world is reading, ready to correct you if your logic or your spelling is faulty.
"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as Lunsford calls it. Those Twitter updates and lists of 25 things about yourself add up.
It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again.
You can listen to me talking more about this on an RTRFM radio interview (about three-quarters through the stream).


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The environment is vulnerable, finite, and must at all costs be protected.
He had shaken off his troubles with drugs to become a champion of the environment.
The fear is that this environment will push these schools over the edge.
That shift is playing itself out from infrastructure to health care to finance and perhaps eventually to the environment.
However, as Kidner states, releasing the animals ended up having the complete opposite effect on the environment.
Not only that, but they are a proof that environment can move a man when free will fails.
Certain faculties develop in response to the pressure of environment.
No man can select his ancestors; no man can select his environment.
That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes.
This, then, is the environment which I have selected for the children we wish to educate.
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The totality of circumstances surrounding an organism or group of organisms, especially the combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, and survival of organisms.
All of the biotic and abiotic factors that act on an organism, population, or ecological community and influence its survival and development. Biotic factors include the organisms themselves, their food, and their interactions. Abiotic factors include such items as sunlight, soil, air, water, climate, and pollution. Organisms respond to changes in their environment by evolutionary adaptations in form and behavior.


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ALBANY - New York's comptroller says the pension fund for state and local government workers reached an estimated $173 billion following year-end stock gains. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is sole trustee of the Common Retirement Fund that reported a $160.7 billion peak at the close of the previous quarter. He cautions that the higher number is only an estimate and that stock performances have been "more problematic" in the past week or so.
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ALBANY - A New York insurer has agreed to reinstate health coverage for up to 8,300 young adults who were dropped from their parents' policies before they turned 30. Under an agreement with the state attorney general, EmblemHealth Inc. also said it will pay approximately 175 claims for about $90,000 for unreimbursed medical treatment. While federal law authorizes keeping children on their parents' health insurance until they turn 26, New York requires insurers to offer that continuing coverage until age 30. The agreement signed this week also requires EmblemHealth to pay the attorney general $100,000 as a civil penalty.
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NEW YORK - Following the death of an autistic teenager who walked away from his New York City school last year, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday it will fund voluntary tracking devices for children with autism or other conditions that put them at risk for fleeing their caregivers. The family of Avonte Oquendo and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., called last weekend for legislation to provide such GPS tracking devices. On Wednesday, Schumer and the Justice Department said existing grant funds would be used. Oquendo disappeared from his Queens school Oct. 4; the 14-year-old's remains were found in the East River this month. Schumer said the program would be voluntary and would be run by local law enforcement entities.
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WHITE PLAINS - Former Spring Valley Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret could face nine years in prison on Wednesday's guilty plea to two federal charges, after admitting he took a $10,500 bribe to support building a kosher catering hall in front of the village municipal building. Desmaret had been caught on audio and videotape discussing and taking the bribe in seven payments from a Monsey-based cooperative witness, prosecutor Douglas Bloom said in the federal courthouse in White Plains. Desmaret, 57, would spend between seven years and three months and nine years in prison and pay a fine covering the amount of the bribe, under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud and extortion.


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Nedra was united in marriage with Robert Sinram on June 13, 1948, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Two children were born to this union, Roberta and Jeff. Nedra and Bob owned and operated Bob's IGA for many years. She enjoyed reading and playing cards, especially bridge.
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Pillow, Becket, Mass., Aug. 23
Eager dancersthats the word for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
They dont have the enameled look of ballet dancers, nor the
combative attitude you see on MTV. Nope, these 20 limber people
just take a deep breath, step out and tear up the stage.
They commit their flexible bodies to a range of choreographic
styles from Kevin ODays sunny son-of-Twyla Tharp grooves
in Quartet for IV (and sometimes one, two or three . .
.) to the Moorish look of Nacho Duatos Cor Perdut
(Lost Heart). Always, they throw their whole soul into
the work until their daily selves disappear into the shape
of the dance.
Over the past 25 years, Hubbard Street has changed from a
pop dance group to the bearers of an international modern
dance repertory by worthy choreographers, including Duato
(Spain), Ohad Naharin (Israel) and Jiri Kylian (the Netherlands),
all of whose works they danced in the final week of the Jacobs
Pillow season.
We had such a good time at the Saturday matinee, we stayed
to see the evening show.
Founded in 1977, by Lou Conte, who is a self-declared hoofer,
Hubbard Street began to get serious critical notice in 1990,
when Twyla Tharp gave them half a dozen definitive dances
from her repertory. After Conte retired in 2000, Jim Vincent
became artistic director. Vincent has danced and served as
ballet master in the companies of Duato and Kylian, and he
is bringing their dances to the Chicago-based troupe.
Vincent is also a witty choreographer in his own right, as
we saw in counter/part (2002), which opened the matinee
program. A dance for four women and six men set to excerpts
from Bachs Brandenburg Concertos and sandwiched with
passages for Baroque lute, counter/part is a rollicking
tug of war between base and noble impulses.
Five courtly men in black, blue or brown velvet tunics look
like a crew of Prince Valiants as they cut angular figures
in duets with three bodiced women. Peasant heartiness smashes
through soon enough in thrusts of the hip, thrown-back heads,
and a pronounced twinkle in the eyes. Before we know it, couples
are on the floor and rolling in tight clumps.
To the music of the lute, we see the wiry, bare-chested body
of Massimo Pacilli. His swaying hips are draped in a brief
red velvet skirt. He could be the spirit of a deserted island
in some Renaissance fantasy. He discovers the women as they
enter one by one and dances amorous duets with each in turn.
Then, red-haired Lauri Stallings arrives, dressed all in green,
to dance with Pacilli in a duet of broken lines and broken
Now, the Prince Vals return, and each has his way with Stallings.
One strips off her skirt; another undoes her hair. This does
not dismay her. Rather, it readies her for a second warm duet
with Pacilli, the animal spirit who finally propels the whole
ensemble into a free-for-all of swingy, loopy turns.
The last vestiges of artifice are stripped away, and the courtiers
salute Pacilli, lifting him high and tossing him in a final
magnificent flip.
Pacilli, who looks more like a comedian than a dancer, became
an Arabian prince in Duatos Cor Perdut, a 1989 duet
which Vincent staged for Hubbard Street this year. Yael Levitin
Saban, an impossibly long-legged, intense dancer, was his
Scheherazade, turning under his arm to the music of the Tunisian
oud, flute and tabla.
Duato has an affinity for Catalan music and song, here sung
(on tape) by the contralto Maria del Mar Bonet. Desert winds
blew through this sinuous dance of spiraling turns, wide-legged
sits, and bends. I could taste roast lamb and lemon, cumin
and rice.
Kylians No More Play (made in 1988 and staged for
Hubbard Street in 2003) showed the dancers in a hard-edged
style. They snapped an arm or a leg up, down or around to
single notes of Anton Weberns agitated violin music. The
sense of fragmented bodies was reinforced by the backdrop,
a black cloth with horizontal rectangles cut out. As dancers
passed behind the drop, we saw only parts of their bodies.
Kylian often makes work in which the dancers seem to be laboring
or frolicking in a communal village. There were no villagers
here. Instead, the five dancers became abstract forms, creating
constructions with cantilevered limbs, doing yoga poses, such
as shoulder stands that instantly morphed into new shapes.
Increasing the risk, two dancers came forward to sit on the
edge of the stage, moving almost into our laps, but focusing
inward. Finally, all five sat there with their backs to us,
leaned back and let their heads hang off the edge. It was
a quietly provocative moment.
Naharins duet, Passomezzo, to unusual variations on
Greensleeves, spiced the evening program with skewed, nutty
moves. Cheryl Mann, elegant in a white tunic, and Jamy Meek,
Chaplinesque in a black jacket, knee pads, and shoes (bare
chest, bare legs) alternated vigorous striding and silly squat-walking
as they danced with and away from each other in this love-me,
love-me-not burlesque.
Kevin ODay, a former Twyla Tharp dancer, made Quartet
for IV in 1994 for the White Oak Dance Project. Hubbard
Street premiered it the following year. Two couples, one boppy
and the other silky, slide and slouch through Tharpian figures
that look spontaneous, but in which every move is planned
to the millimeter.
Its that casual effect we strive for hours to achieve. ODay
and the dancers do it beautifully, flexibly, with breath-filled
open chests, noodling feet, and knowing smiles. The music
theyre fooling around to is White Man Sleeps, by Kevin
Volans, performed by the Kronos Quartet.
Both the matinee and evening show ended with Naharins Minus
16, which Hubbard Street also did at Proctors in March.
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For anyone who has tried to park their car in New York City, news that Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kha are working to make it a bit easier will come as a huge relief. The Mayor's office announced today that the city is unveiling a pilot program that will allow motorists to pay their parking fees through a new smartphone app.
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"Using smartphone apps to simplify New York drivers' daily lives is another step to New York City becoming the leading digital city," said Rachel Haot, New York City's Chief Digital Officer in a statement. "The City continues to champion the employment of new technology to make life easier for New Yorkers and this pilot pay-by-phone program will help to do that by transforming parking in New York City."
Another app, coming later this spring from Streetline, will help motorists find open parking spots using their phones.
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Just pointing out that France (Nice to be exact) already has this, along with other improvements: reserving your space, paying all by phone, telling you where spaces are free, and alerting the traffic police when someone is parked illegally. http://www.think-global.fr/uk/...


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Local firm on the lookout for more scenic views in national parks
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- February 28, 2014
A NEW cantilevered lookout that juts out from the rim of Launceston's Cataract Gorge could be the first of many in Tasmania.
The lookout's instigators, architect Stuart Tanner and entrepreneur Heather Rose of Hobart, have plans to helicopter similar structures into some of Tasmania's most spectacular vantage points.
The Labor Government, which contributed $200,000 to the Cataract Gorge installation, has expressed support for a widespread rollout in national parks.
Mr Tanner said the lookouts, which enabled viewers to safely walk out from the edge of cliffs on steel flooring, could add scenic value and excitement to Tasmania's many short walks.
He said a network of the patented low-environmental-footprint lookouts could induce many more people to experience the state's mountain tops, gorges, waterfalls and sea cliffs.
"We see Tasmania as a jewel — not to be exploited but polished so it shines,'' he said.
Ms Rose said their business Tangent Structures was also in discussions with national parks in the Northern Territory and at NSW's Blue Mountains in an effort to generate export sales.
She said the $230,000 10m-long Cataract Gorge lookout had involved 18 sub-contractors, half of whom were aged under 25.
Ms Rose said the state's political parties had voiced pre-election support, but Tangent Structures had not yet received any firm commitments for further Tasmanian installations.
"It works with existing tracks and car parks. It also opens up countless new regions for walks and views, giving visitors a new reason to explore,'' she said.
Environment Minister Brian Wightman said the gorge had been his "extended backyard'' when he was growing up in nearby Trevallyn.
Launceston Mayor Albert van Zetten said more than 112,000 people visited Cataract Gorge in January and February alone, last year.
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Lynda Morris of Huon Posted at 11:24 PM March 02, 2014
I know that one, Leonard, but what about local ones too? Play fair!
Leonard Colquhoun of Launceston Posted at 12:34 PM March 01, 2014
There is a you-beaut, OMG!!!!, one jutting over the Grand Canyon.
Lynda Morris of Huon Posted at 7:43 PM February 28, 2014
What relation to the Airwalk cantilever is this "new" type of lookout? Looks suspiciously like a " how close can we get to the same design, on a smaller scale, to the Tahune lookout onto the Two Rivers", to me! Persuade me that it is not an almost-copy, just different enough to avoid Design court appearances. Not saying I don't like it - just that no acknowledgement is given in this article, or on the TV news tonight, to the Tahune Airwalk, which is being small-minded and just plain mean.


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Birds are chirping, trees are budding and consumers appearing to be willing to open their wallets a little wider for hamburger, according to the March Food Demand Survey from Oklahoma State University's Department of Agriculture Economics.
After dropping to $4.06 per pound in February, consumers responding to the survey indicated a willingness to pay $4.28 per pound for hamburger in March, an increase of 5.42 percent. According to the latest retail beef information from USDA, prices for 90 percent lean and higher ground beef ranged from $2.99 to $4.99 across the United States from March 14-20.
Consumers were also willing to pay more for deli ham (up 11.68 percent to $2.20 per pound), pork chops (up 2.31 percent to $3.55 per pound) and pasta (up 3.77 percent to $2.75). Willingness-to-pay feel for chicken products fell compared to February, with chicken wings falling 19.52 percent to $2.02 per pound. Steak also dropped compared to the February survey to $6.59, a 4.07 percent decrease. Overall, consumers expected higher prices for beef prices in the coming weeks.
Taste, safety and price continue to be consumers' top values related to their food purchasing decisions, and they reported that their main challenge this month was finding affordable foods. Consumers indicated that losing weight was a bigger challenge compared to February, and more respondents reported having food poisoning.
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