The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Missouri heating, ventilation and air conditioning company for three serious and two repeat violations after an apprentice technician was electrocuted at…
Tag: Workers
HVAC techs, Amazon drivers and other outdoor workers talk about working in sub-zero temperatures
As the temperature dropped, work still had to be done across the metro area. Delivery drivers could be seen running from warm trucks to drop packages while plumbers and HVAC…
Endless cycle of destruction and repair for Ukraine’s energy workers
It has become a daily struggle for Ukrainian technicians: mending pipes damaged by Russian airstrikes in a desperate bid to keep the energy grid working in freezing temperatures, even as…
Worker’s death blamed on HVAC refrigerant leak
USA: The death of a maintenance worker at an arena in Augusta, Georgia, on Friday evening has been blamed on a refrigerant leak from an HVAC system. The victim, named…
HVAC Workers Win Class Status for Some California Wage Claims
Oct. 19, 2022, 8:21 PM On-call, wage statement, terminated employee subclasses get nod Minimum wage, rest break claims too individualized for class status HVAC service technicians who say their employer…
Pinellas school district sending skilled workers, supplies to Lee County to help repair damaged schools
Pinellas County schools sending help to Lee County schools damaged by Hurricane Ian Elizabeth Fry reports. LARGO, Fla. – Hurricane Ian left parts of southwest Florida decimated, and caused major…
11 Florida air conditioning companies shorted workers $113K, feds say – Action News Jax
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor revealed that employees at 11 Florida heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractors were shortchanged more than $113,000 in back pay. >> Read…
11 Florida air conditioning companies shorted workers $113K, feds say – WPXI
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor revealed that employees at 11 Florida heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractors were shortchanged more than $113,000 in back pay. >> Read…
Partnership to offer paid HVAC training to Dallas workers to help fill shortage
Earlier this year, when Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson named Lynn McBee as his workforce czar, he said that boosting workforce development efforts in the city was a “top mayoral priority.”…
Did NJ worker’s death lead Amazon to install new air conditioning? It won’t say.
Amazon won’t say whether the installation of new industrial air conditioning systems at its Carteret, New Jersey warehouse was prompted by an employee’s recent death there — or by worker…