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:: Monday, July 28, 2008 ::
Bush Labor Dept. Secretly Writes Rule on Worker Exposure to Toxins - by Mike Hall, AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
For seven and a half years, the Bush administration has delayed and sometimes just refused to act on workplace safety and health rules that could save lives and prevent serious injuries. Had the administration acted on those stalled rules, it may have prevented the deaths of 13 workers in a Georgia sugar plant explosion in February and the more than a dozen crane accident deaths this year in New York City, Las Vegas, Miami and Houston.
Now, with time running out on the Bush White House, it is fast-tracking a secretly written rule—long sought by the business community—that could increase workers’ exposure to dangerous chemicals and toxic substances on the job and tie the hands of future administrations trying to improve workplace safety.------------------------------------------- posted 6:55 AM :: reference link ::
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