“As we enter the last year of the current grant cycle, our focus is on... embedding lessons learned into long-term strategies for systems change. "Our commitment to open access resources, community dissemination, and integration into graduate education ensures that the...

As we wrap up our calendar year, we want to honor the accomplishments that reflect our progress, partnerships, and growing influence. “These accomplishments reflect the collective effort of our dedicated team, community partners, and collaborators...

“In our nine-year history, we have demonstrated that meaningful change happens when worker voices, community and employer leadership, and evidence-based strategies converge.” – Kirsten Almberg, PhD, MS, Director of the Center for Healthy Work

Through this whirlwind of a year, our center has remained steadfast in exploring the interconnectedness of work and health and addressing the root causes of precarious work. As we approach the new year, we are excited to share many of these significant contributions with you!

Excited to partner with National COSH this year to welcome COSHCON2025 to Chicago! We'll see you there: nationalcosh.org/COSHCON2025

Join Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) Project at the Deeply Rooted Gathering on this Wednesday, August 27th from 12:30-2 PM at SPH Room 160. Lunch will be provided. ⬇️

Happy start of fall semester at UIC! Wishing everyone an academic year filled with success and new opportunities.

Learn about a new project related to extreme heat and pregnancy: Extreme Weather Survivors (EWS) is a new non-profit organization amplifying the voices of people directly impacted by dangerous weather so they can support each other, educate others, influence policy,...

🚨 100 days until #COSHCON2025!
Oct 8–10 | Chicago
Workshops. Organizing. Worker power.
🔗 Register now: nationalcosh.org/COSHCON2025 #COSHCON2025

There is a new GLHW Project research brief up on our website! This cross-sectional survey using a community-based participatory approach examined the association between employment precarity and Greater Lawndale residents’ experiences with precariousness and material deprivation.

🦺 “Most people have never heard of NIOSH — when public health is working well, it’s invisible. Occupational health is no different.” In a new Letter to the Editor, the directors of UIC’s three NIOSH-funded centers discuss the dangers of gutting the National Institute for Occupational Safety and...

On Memorial Day 1937, peaceful protesters marched for steelworker rights outside of Republic Steel Plant on the Southeast side of Chicago. They were brutally attacked by police officers with weapons obtained by the plant's owners. 🧵 #OnThisDay #ChicagoHistory #WorkerHealth

We commemorate Workers Memorial Day today, April 28th, the same day that the Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) Act went into effect in 1971, to grieve the countless individuals killed due to unsafe and abusive conditions at work.

THURSDAY 📣 Join Community Health Sciences' Scholarly Community Engagement for Health Justice Class for their Center for Healthy Work Data Dissemination event focused on precarious work. More info + calendar invite: https://f.mtr.cool/yjcygfdkjo

🎨 Join Chicago Jobs with Justice for their Art Build: Honoring Workers' Memorial Day & the May Day March! When: 4/27 2-4 pm Where: Chicago Women in Trades, 2444 W 16th St, 60608 Who: All ages and skill levels welcome – no experience necessary! Register: https://f.mtr.cool/sdxipxxkow

“Juego de lotería destaca los vínculos entre el trabajo y la salud en las comunidades locales" en UIC Today muestra la Lotería de Greater Lawndale e incluye entrevistas con Dolores Castañeda y Sylvia González del equipo del proyecto Greater Lawndale Healthy Work, y estudiantes...

🔖NEW PUBLICATION from our Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy project: “Workplace Culture of Health and Equitable Workforce Well-Being: A Scoping Literature Review” (American Journal of Health Promotion). Read here: https://f.mtr.cool/hajndidvwe #workerhealth

On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in NYC became one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the U.S. after 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, were killed. Public outrage galvanized the labor movement already in progress before the tragedy.🧵

[Español abajo] Come to a vaccine drive this Sunday from 9am-1pm at St. Agnes of Bohemia Church (2643 S. Central Park, Chicago, IL 60623). Call (773) 522-0142 to register.  Get vaccinated for: 💉 Measles 💉 Covid-19 💉 Flu 💉 RSV #Vaccines #FreeClinic #Chicago #LittleVillage

TOMORROW 📣 Join Theater of the Oppressed and UIC Community Health Sciences's Scholarly Community Engagement for Health Justice class for an arts-based dissemination focused on workers rights and informal, precarious work! More info + calendar invite here: https://f.mtr.cool/zneopntnyc

Several worker centers in Illinois are asking the public to submit witness slips for two pieces of state legislation that they say are critical for worker protection. Committee meetings are scheduled for the proposed legislation as early as the afternoon of Wed., March 19th ⬇️

NEWS STORY:  A construction worker was killed by electrical shock in North Lawndale Tuesday morning after the boom lift he was working on came into contact with a high-voltage power line. The 33-year-old was transported to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead. ⬇️

💬 Text us! 📲  We've added a brand new way to reach us via phone. If you need to get in touch with anyone at the Center for Healthy Work, you can leave us a text or voice message at (312) 355-6084.   P.S. All other communication methods are still open and active!

UIC faculty alongside UICUF Local 6456 held a rally yesterday to bring awareness to the impacts of federal funding cuts and freezes to life-saving research, community partnerships, and faculty, staff, and student jobs. WGN-TV full story: https://s.mtrbio.com/whbqtyuazv  #LaborForHigherEd

Last week, our three EOHS NIOSH-funded centers travelled to DC to meet with local Congress legislators’ offices and discuss continued support for occupational health and safety research. We also met with Total Worker Health® centers, Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health,...

Join us virtually tomorrow 🌳 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮: 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙙𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙑𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙐𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨 Tuesday 2/11 at 11am CST Register here: https://buff.ly/3WtHWS9 More info below ⬇️

🫘 If you have not yet seen Greater Lawndale Lotería at the CDC Museum Digital Exhibit, today is the perfect day to do so! ➡️ View “Promoting Worker's Health: Greater Lawndale Lotería Game" at tinyurl.com/GLLatCDC

📻 You can now listen online to the worker health and safety episode of “¡Lucha Por Tus Derechos Chicago!,” a radio series about migrant rights and migrant struggles. Tune into www.mixcloud.com/lumpenradio/playlists/lucha-por-tus-derechos/ to listen to the first two episodes of the radio series.

It's February. You really should have a calendar by now. But if you haven't, why not get the WCH calendar? With an On this Day item each day, images of ordinary people making history, and room for your daily planning. Get yours: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wch...

OccHealthSci offers resources for workplace safety practitioners across a variety of industries including #construction, #transportation, #logging, #fishing. Check out our Hazard Alerts and more at our practitioner resource library: bit.ly/3EmAxh2 youtu.be/mlEBqf2NB90?...

WORKER HEALTH ALERT / ALERTA DE SALUD OCUPACIONAL: [Español abajo]  If you or anyone you know fabricates countertops from quartz or engineered stone, you may have been exposed to dangerous levels of silica dust. Schedule a FREE MEDICAL EXAM today!

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was signed into law on this day in 1993, guaranteeing eligible workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year for serious health conditions, maternity or paternity leave, or caregiving responsibilities. 🧵

⚙️ On this day in 1989, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act became effective, providing critical protections for employees facing mass layoffs or plant closures. 🧵

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As requested, here is my starter pack for worker's rights and the labor movement. I know not all accounts have switched over here from the bad place yet, so do let me know if I missed anyone. Solidarity! 💪 go.bsky.app/4V22d5q

Arise Chicago's Immigrant Worker Toolkit shares tools and information on legal rights that immigrant workers should be aware of. 🧰 Visit the links below to access the educational guide in two different languages: English: https://buff.ly/4atzgk9 Spanish: https://buff.ly/4aps0FY

[Español abajo] 🚨 To begin, we want to share some big recent news... We’re partnering with National COSH to host #COSHCON2025 at UIC! 📅 Save the Date: Oct 8-10, 2025 📍 Location: UIC Campus Stay tuned for updates on the registration, housing, and more! ✨

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We are UIC’s Center for Healthy Work and we’re excited to share research project updates, worker health and safety resources, local worker news highlights, important dates in U.S. labor history, and so much more on here!