If you have an hour or two on your hands tomorrow morning, I will be testifying at the hearing by the House Education and Workforce Committee, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, titled “Reclaiming OSHA’s Mission: Ensuring Safety Without Overreach.” The hearing will begin at 10:15 am.
This will be the first hearing addressing OSHA and workplace safety since the beginning of the Trump Administration.
I will be the only Democratic witness, going up against Republican witnesses Felicia Watson (Littler Mendelson), Ben Tresselt (Arborist Enterprises) and Scott Parson (Americas Materials).
Spoiler Alert: My message will be that if you are actually interested in reclaiming OSHA’s mission, you don’t cut OSHA’s budget and refuse to restore the positions of OSHA staff that have taken advantage of early retirement offers.
Also no one knowledgeable about OSHA’s small size, few resources and legal and resource constraints on its ability to issue standards in a reasonable period of time would complain about OSHA “overreach” with a straight face.
If you’re in the neighborhood, come on down to the Rayburn Building, Room 2175, tomorrow morning, or you can watch the hearing live by clicking below. And you can download all of the testimony here tomorrow morning.
If you somehow have better things to do tomorrow morning, the hearing will be archived to watch later.
A fun time will be had by all. And it will fit in thematically with your other favorite shows: like Hacks, The Rest of Us and The Handmaid’s Tale.
Wish you all the best, Jordan. Would have preferred a circumstance where you would be advocating for budget increases, but not these days…
Good luck wish I could watch. On strike at my local. Give them hell. And thank you.
Kick ass brother! Won’t it be like The Last of Us, continually fighting off infected mutants that our taking over our world, our country and our brains
I hope it’s not a lead up to consideration of HR 86, the NOSHA Act!
I know you will do well…but good luck anyways and try to keep a straight face when the other side opens their mouth.
Good luck, Jordan (Gig)! I hope it goes well.
Jordan, excellent comments. Thanks for appropriately including the critical NIOSH as well as pointing out the scope of OSHA’s under-reach!