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Broken water pipes and asbestos exposure in Houston
Posted by Liz Borkowski on November 15, 2012
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Celeste Monforton has been working for the past several months with the Houston worker center Fe y Justicia to respond to outrageous employer behavior that exposed construction workers to asbestos and raised questions about how the city selects contractors.
Poor safety record no bar to winning government construction contracts
Posted by The Pump Handle on April 23, 2012 by Elizabeth Grossman One might assume that when a government agency awards a private company a contract to do construction work – for bridge or sewer work or other public utility repairs, for example – evaluating the company’s safety and health record would be a prerequisite. This is, however, not the case. As the government…