New Labor Committee Members
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced lots of new members of the newly christened House Education and Labor Committee this morning…
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2018: The Workplace Safety and Health Year in Review
2018 is gone and buried. What happened in the world of workplace safety and health? What can we learn that…
No OSHA Head This Session
Looks like OSHA will continue to be leaderless for the near future.
House Workforce Committee Goes Out With a Whimper, Not a Bang
The last hearing of the soon-to-be late, great Republican-controlled House Education and Workforce Committee of the 115th Congress was supposed…
What’s in a Name? House Labor Committee Reborn
In one of the first moves of the soon-to-be Democratic Majority in the House of Representatives, Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott…
Mugno or not to Mugno: The Senate Must Decide
As the sun sets on the 115th Congress and the mid-point of this term of the Trump administration, the sun…
New Congress: New Opportunities
What changes for workplace safety can workers expect from the new Democratically controlled Congress next year? I give my best…
“We mean nothing to no one” — Slaughter In The Trenches
It never stops. Two workers, Juan Baez-Sanchez, 42, and Victoriano Garcia-Perez, 56, both Mexican immigrants, died in the collapse of…
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House Holds Worthless Hearing on “Regulatory Reform”
Sometimes you just have to wonder why House Republicans even bother. Yesterday they wasted the taxpayer’s money holding a ridiculous…