# Jonathan Karmel

Author Jonathan Karmel joins us to talk about his book, Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace. For more than 30 years Jon has represented workers and labor unions and their benefit funds throughout the midwest in the federal courts and before the NLRB, Department of Labor, and …

There are no accidents. That’s the conclusion of Jonathan Karmel as he traveled around the country talking to injured workers and surviving family members in many different occupations, including store clerks, hotel housekeepers, miners, nurses, grain handlers, and others about unsafe working condi…

In the U.S., death and injury on the job are considered to be a condition of doing business, a necessary evil that is often said to come about because of “operator error” — everyone makes mistakes after all, why should an employer or corporation bear the burden of what is surely just a fact of huma…

Today we have a very special guest, Jonathan Karmel! He's an experienced labor and employee union lawyer, and also happens to be my mom's fiancé! Pro-labor and pro-marital union in this house! Unions and labor relations have been a hot topic for years now and we chat about the recent historic win …