Trump’s OSHA Endangers Workers And The Economic Recovery
Nurses and other health care worker advocates and the labor movement represented by the AFL-CIO filed legal charges against the government to require mandated COVID-19 -related standards. Last week the AFL-CIO filed a 70-page petition in federal court to compel the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an emergency temporary standard protecting U.S. workers against being infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) at work. The lawsuit asks the courts to require OSHA to fulfill its lawful duty. OSHA challenged the suit, saying that the infectious disease does not pose a grave and urgent threat to workers. And the Chamber of Commerce replied that voluntary flexible measures were good enough.