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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.

Houston, we have a workers’ rights problem: Profile of a worker justice center in Texas’ biggest city

Posted by The Pump Handle on July 9, 2012
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Last month, more than 70 ironworkers walked off an ExxonMobil construction site near Houston, Texas. The workers, known as rodbusters in the industry, weren’t members of a union or backed by powerful organizers; they decided amongst themselves to unite in protest of unsafe working conditions in a state that has the highest construction worker fatality rate in the country.