Trump Signs Repeal of Volks Rule: Workers Lose
President Trump yesterday signed the resolution repealing the Volks rule , thereby permanently removing OSHA’s ability to cite patterns of…
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President Trump yesterday signed the resolution repealing the Volks rule , thereby permanently removing OSHA’s ability to cite patterns of…
Bloomberg Business Week’s Peter Waldman published a devastating article last month about the injuries and fatalities in Southern auto parts…
In the largest-ever individual award by the OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program, OSHA announced today that it had ordered Wells Fargo…
Workers concerned about safety and health in the workplace are heading for some rough days ahead with the current administration…
It has now been 41 days since OSHA has issued an enforcement-related press release. In 2016, OSHA issued 486 enforcement-related…
In the wake of yesterday’s devastating article in Bloomberg Business Week about the carnage in foreign-owned auto parts facilities in…
If you read nothing else this week, read this: Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs.…
Alexander Acosta, the President’s nominee for Secretary of Labor testified today before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee.…
The Senate just voted to repeal OSHA’s Volks rule making it impossible for OSHA to enforce its recordkeeping standard. Workers…
By Peter Fox, Counselor to the Solicitor, US Department of Labor, 2016-2017. Before voting as early as this week on…