Bush OSHA Plan A Flop, Says DOL

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

The now-departed anti-worker GOP Bush government’s plan to have the Occupational Safety and Health Administration target only the worst job safety and health violators was a flop, a new Labor Department report says.  And workers may have been injured or died as a result of that failure, it adds. “Proper enforcement might have deterred and abated workplace hazards at the worksites of 45 employers where 58 subsequent fatalities occurred,” the scathing report from DOL’s Inspector General said.  But that enforcement did not occur, it noted. The agency’s findings dismayed - but did not surprise - either the AFL-CIO or Change To Win.  Both have been highly critical of the Bush OSHA’s inaction. Click here for the full story. - Press Associates