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\"protectionsThe House\u00a0Subcommittee on Workforce Protections<\/a> will hold a hearing<\/a> on Tuesday entitled\u00a0\u201cA More Effective and Collaborative OSHA: A View from Stakeholders.\u201d\u00a0 This will be the first — and probably the only — oversight hearing held in this two-year session of Congress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Committee has not yet made witness names public. (Hint: not me.) Republicans will probably choose three witnesses and Democrats will be allowed to choose one. They have until 10:00 am Sunday to reveal who will testify.<\/p>\n

Nor is it clear exactly what will be discussed. But judging from who is running Congress, we can guess a few things:<\/p>\n

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  1. By “collaborative,” we can assume they will be promoting OSHA’s troubled Voluntary Protection Programs<\/a> over enforcement.\u00a0 VPP had been plagued by integrity problems when it grew too fast during the Bush administration and although the Obama administration addressed most of those issue, budget restrictions kept the program from growing over the past several years.\u00a0 Secretary Acosta has expressed interest in growing the program again.\u00a0 And you will probably hear (more than once) the same tired old myths of how the Obama administration was all confrontation and no cooperation, and how OSHA standards kill jobs.<\/li>\n
  2. The word “effective” has us flummoxed though.\u00a0 Because enforcement actually has been proven to be effective<\/a> in protecting workers, while VPP has not. So maybe they’ll discuss how to make enforcement stronger and more effective? Probably not.<\/li>\n
  3. And who are the “stakeholders” whose “views” they want to get?\u00a0 Workers, who the Occupational Safety and Health Act is designed to protect?\u00a0 Well, if I was a gambling man (which I am), I wouldn’t put much money on that.\u00a0 If I had to predict, I’d say their idea of “stakeholders” would be a representative of the Chamber of Commerce or some other business association, a small business person who has been “persecuted” by evil OSHA inspectors, and probably a representative from a VPP company (maybe even a union member) who will extol the virtues of VPP.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Stay tuned and mark the time and date on your calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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