
Houston Matters
Balancing worker safety and productivity on a construction site
Posted on · A local builder and union rep discuss the challenges that come with completing projects on deadline, outside, in the Houston heat.
Posted on · A local builder and union rep discuss the challenges that come with completing projects on deadline, outside, in the Houston heat.
Posted on · On Tuesday's show: Texas GOP lawmakers have reached a deal to cut property taxes. We learn what it took to achieve the compromise and what it might mean for property owners.
Posted on · Houston's Fe y Justicia Worker Center has compiled information on rights violations local workers faced in 2018, including health and safety issues, wage theft, and discrimination.
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: How rising tides are affecting property values, workplace fatalities in Texas, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, how the state handles environmental crises, and Galveston poet Lupe Mendez.
Posted on · Officials say two workers have been killed and another was hurt during a high-pressure release as the men did repairs on a South Texas gas pipeline.
Posted on · A Houston fire cadet died on Thursday after collapsing during a training exercise.
Posted on · Oil worker Dustin Bergsing, 21, was found dead on top of a North Dakota oil tank in 2012. A journalist and a doctor looking into the death found a pattern of similar fatal accidents.
Posted on · Roy Miller, a Nabors Drilling employee, was fatally injured last Thursday.
Posted on · Jurors in Houston on Wednesday decided on damages in the negligence lawsuit filed on behalf of Angel Garcia's mother and two children.
Posted on · Houston's workforce is unusually exposed to upheaval abroad.