I don't pretend to be an administrative law expert, but all those regulations had to have gone through a notice and hearing process before being issued, didn't they? Likewise, they can't just be revoked or rewritten without the same due process. Perhaps representatives of labor organizations can swamp the hearing rooms and earn their pay.
Everyone knows that OSHA regulations cover the Quarterback Sneak and the Flea Flicker, NOT punt returns. This obvious attempt to confuse the public suggests a deep state retake over within the agency. Please get AXIOS on the story before it's too late!
What? Axios shamed itself into oblivion? Politico then! You know: Tiger Beat on the Potomac! Plus Epstein! But hurry!
Truly the End Times™ are within sight for now, as foretold and daring-do-tell, manifest two words upon our retinal cells which never before appeared in such promising prophetic proximity: "Trump Labor".
Ta, Robyn. They're trying to negate the entire 20th century, and part of the 19th while they're at it. Solidarity forever, daughterfuckers.
And while they're destroying necessary regulations, why has none of them proposed bringing back the debtors' prisons? Great source of unpaid labor, there.
My dad lived and died in the US before OSHA. He'd always been an inventive artist; he became a color chemist and color engineer in plastics (yes, Benjamin, one word). Among other things, he made our records black. Before that, he did the same for a paint company. He would look at the resin dyes under his fingernails before washing his hands and say, "This stuff's gonna kill me." It did. It took years, but his circulatory system shut down (exacerbated by diabetes, which was in general poorly controlled in the 1960s). He was dead at 51, and he died an old man. Anyone who believes we don't need OSHA (and NIOSH and such) can go suck the plastic off an injection mold. I'll wait.
Sadly, it's not because "some of us think it’s bad for workers to starve or die". It's because some of us think some workers starving or dying is actually ok.
“the party of the employers of the working class,” as the the Trump administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) is looking to kill more than 60 labor rules and regulations they have decided are “obsolete.”
As obsolete as those pesky laws from the Voting Rights Act were declared unconstitutional because 'racism was over' and they were 'old'.*
*said no doubt by the same eldrich (as in old and horrors) judges on the supreme court who use fricking ancient laws from merry old England to interpret the constitution of the United States.
Howard Luddite: Americans will have the great opportunity to work in these factories and farms their entire lives. It will be the same job their parents had and that their children will have as soon as they turn 12. In other words, paradise on earth. :D
"The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted 4-1 (Democratic majority)in favor of a program to train owners and employees of small businesses about their rights in the event of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid." --Voice of San Diego, and other news outlets
As if running a small business wasn't hard enough, you now need to spend some time to protect your employees and business from being invaded by federal armed and masked droogs.
> "Representative Biggs recently introduced it again in the 119th Congress, without cosponsors, as H.R. 86. It has been referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
H.R. 86 is a simple piece of legislation that includes two simple sentences that have caused an uproar: “The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished.”
...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas [everyone's favorite SCOTUS justice], in a dissent to the denial of certiorari in Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC, v. Su, stated that “[t]he Occupational Safety and Health Act may be the broadest delegation of power to an administrative agency found in the United States Code.” He continued, writing, “If this far-reaching grant of authority does not impermissibly confer legislative power on an agency, it is hard to imagine what would.” He also indicated that a majority of the justices had expressed an interest in reviewing this sort of broad delegation of authority." https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/member-of-congress-introduces-bill-to-abolish-occupational-safety-and-health-administration
--and--
> "A broad executive order issued in the first days of the Trump administration has indefinitely delayed a number of changes to safety standards proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The order prohibits federal administrative agencies from proposing or finalizing new rules, and directs them to withdraw rules sent for publication in the Federal Register." https://www.parkerpoe.com/news/2025/02/executive-order-halts-osha-rulemaking
* NIOSH (The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) is on the chopping block:
> "was created by OSHA as a research arm for high risk workers and for compiling scientific bases for new regulations. ***Approximately two-thirds of its workforce was laid off*** as part of the Department of Health and Human Services layoffs. Given that, it will be difficult or impossible for any new regulations to be promulgated and NIOSH investigations conducted in the past, for example into workplace disease outbreaks and certification of respirators, will likely be untenable with the minimal workforce remaining." [emphasis added] https://www.goldbergsegalla.com/news-and-knowledge/knowledge/anticipated-regulatory-changes-with-osha/
* Dept of Labor rescinds a shitload of rules for employees' benefit:
> " the NLRB can resume its mission enforcing workers’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). President Trump has opposed this important work, as shown by his email purporting to fire Wilcox, who is the only Black woman to ever serve on the NLRB.
In his email, Trump [sic] at turns ignored and derided the agency’s work, further undercutting his claims to be pro-worker. As he admitted, his decision to remove Wilcox was because she is pro-worker, as shown in her support for a pro-worker ‘joint employer’ rule, which, as the American Civil Liberties Union has argued, is essential to holding employers accountable for their misdeeds. In his email, Trump did not mention the NLRB’s mission to safeguard workers’ right to collective action or the benefits of holding employers accountable for their treatment of workers. He expressed empathy for employers only, claiming without evidence that Wilcox’s decisions had “improperly cabined employers’ rights to speak on the subject of unionization[.]” https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/trumps-attempt-to-deride-nlrb-wont-stop-power-of-collective-actions
--and--
> "More than half of the regulations Trump’s DOL proposes to rescind are designed to ensure that workers have safe workplaces, such as requiring employers to limit workers’ exposure to a variety of harmful substances like benzene, asbestos, lead, and cotton dust.
Other rules being eliminated protect workers’ wages. These include the 2013 home health care worker rule, which gave in-home care workers the right to earn the minimum wage and overtime pay for the first time. DOL also wants to roll back the 2024 farmworker protections rule, which would have helped farmworkers advocate for better working conditions and required other protections for this extremely vulnerable group of low-wage workers. Trump’s DOL also withdrew a proposed rule that would have eliminated the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities, effectively keeping many people with disabilities unable to receive fair pay for their work." https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-department-of-labor-is-dismantling-key-workplace-protections/
The "party of the working class™" my ass.
(Some of my points were covered in the story, outside source quotes for confirmation.)
Shocker. They don't care about workers, go figure.
I don't pretend to be an administrative law expert, but all those regulations had to have gone through a notice and hearing process before being issued, didn't they? Likewise, they can't just be revoked or rewritten without the same due process. Perhaps representatives of labor organizations can swamp the hearing rooms and earn their pay.
Everyone knows that OSHA regulations cover the Quarterback Sneak and the Flea Flicker, NOT punt returns. This obvious attempt to confuse the public suggests a deep state retake over within the agency. Please get AXIOS on the story before it's too late!
What? Axios shamed itself into oblivion? Politico then! You know: Tiger Beat on the Potomac! Plus Epstein! But hurry!
Truly the End Times™ are within sight for now, as foretold and daring-do-tell, manifest two words upon our retinal cells which never before appeared in such promising prophetic proximity: "Trump Labor".
Truly the End Times™ are here.
Ta, Robyn. They're trying to negate the entire 20th century, and part of the 19th while they're at it. Solidarity forever, daughterfuckers.
And while they're destroying necessary regulations, why has none of them proposed bringing back the debtors' prisons? Great source of unpaid labor, there.
My dad lived and died in the US before OSHA. He'd always been an inventive artist; he became a color chemist and color engineer in plastics (yes, Benjamin, one word). Among other things, he made our records black. Before that, he did the same for a paint company. He would look at the resin dyes under his fingernails before washing his hands and say, "This stuff's gonna kill me." It did. It took years, but his circulatory system shut down (exacerbated by diabetes, which was in general poorly controlled in the 1960s). He was dead at 51, and he died an old man. Anyone who believes we don't need OSHA (and NIOSH and such) can go suck the plastic off an injection mold. I'll wait.
It isn’t hard to follow the rules.
Pay a living wage.
Keep them safe.
But, but Republicans are the working class party now!
Effing project 2025 will take lots of undoing if we ever get the chance.
Just another example showing that man doesn't give a shit about his base.
Nighters sheeple, be kind.
https://youtu.be/1Cw1ng75KP0?si=x8N7oUzCfC4-Lcvt
"those protections exist for a reason"
Sadly, it's not because "some of us think it’s bad for workers to starve or die". It's because some of us think some workers starving or dying is actually ok.
Nice going, fuckwads.
“the party of the employers of the working class,” as the the Trump administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) is looking to kill more than 60 labor rules and regulations they have decided are “obsolete.”
As obsolete as those pesky laws from the Voting Rights Act were declared unconstitutional because 'racism was over' and they were 'old'.*
*said no doubt by the same eldrich (as in old and horrors) judges on the supreme court who use fricking ancient laws from merry old England to interpret the constitution of the United States.
Howard Luddite: Americans will have the great opportunity to work in these factories and farms their entire lives. It will be the same job their parents had and that their children will have as soon as they turn 12. In other words, paradise on earth. :D
"The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted 4-1 (Democratic majority)in favor of a program to train owners and employees of small businesses about their rights in the event of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid." --Voice of San Diego, and other news outlets
As if running a small business wasn't hard enough, you now need to spend some time to protect your employees and business from being invaded by federal armed and masked droogs.
"The Republican Party has not been able to shut up for some time now about how it is “the party of the working class”"
Just some of the ways that the Fulvous Fuckwad, and his regime, is looking out for the little people:
* Dramatically reduce (or eliminate) OSHA's responsibilities:
> "Representative Biggs recently introduced it again in the 119th Congress, without cosponsors, as H.R. 86. It has been referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
H.R. 86 is a simple piece of legislation that includes two simple sentences that have caused an uproar: “The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished.”
...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas [everyone's favorite SCOTUS justice], in a dissent to the denial of certiorari in Allstates Refractory Contractors, LLC, v. Su, stated that “[t]he Occupational Safety and Health Act may be the broadest delegation of power to an administrative agency found in the United States Code.” He continued, writing, “If this far-reaching grant of authority does not impermissibly confer legislative power on an agency, it is hard to imagine what would.” He also indicated that a majority of the justices had expressed an interest in reviewing this sort of broad delegation of authority." https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/member-of-congress-introduces-bill-to-abolish-occupational-safety-and-health-administration
--and--
> "A broad executive order issued in the first days of the Trump administration has indefinitely delayed a number of changes to safety standards proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The order prohibits federal administrative agencies from proposing or finalizing new rules, and directs them to withdraw rules sent for publication in the Federal Register." https://www.parkerpoe.com/news/2025/02/executive-order-halts-osha-rulemaking
* NIOSH (The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) is on the chopping block:
> "was created by OSHA as a research arm for high risk workers and for compiling scientific bases for new regulations. ***Approximately two-thirds of its workforce was laid off*** as part of the Department of Health and Human Services layoffs. Given that, it will be difficult or impossible for any new regulations to be promulgated and NIOSH investigations conducted in the past, for example into workplace disease outbreaks and certification of respirators, will likely be untenable with the minimal workforce remaining." [emphasis added] https://www.goldbergsegalla.com/news-and-knowledge/knowledge/anticipated-regulatory-changes-with-osha/
* Dept of Labor rescinds a shitload of rules for employees' benefit:
> " the NLRB can resume its mission enforcing workers’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). President Trump has opposed this important work, as shown by his email purporting to fire Wilcox, who is the only Black woman to ever serve on the NLRB.
In his email, Trump [sic] at turns ignored and derided the agency’s work, further undercutting his claims to be pro-worker. As he admitted, his decision to remove Wilcox was because she is pro-worker, as shown in her support for a pro-worker ‘joint employer’ rule, which, as the American Civil Liberties Union has argued, is essential to holding employers accountable for their misdeeds. In his email, Trump did not mention the NLRB’s mission to safeguard workers’ right to collective action or the benefits of holding employers accountable for their treatment of workers. He expressed empathy for employers only, claiming without evidence that Wilcox’s decisions had “improperly cabined employers’ rights to speak on the subject of unionization[.]” https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/trumps-attempt-to-deride-nlrb-wont-stop-power-of-collective-actions
--and--
> "More than half of the regulations Trump’s DOL proposes to rescind are designed to ensure that workers have safe workplaces, such as requiring employers to limit workers’ exposure to a variety of harmful substances like benzene, asbestos, lead, and cotton dust.
Other rules being eliminated protect workers’ wages. These include the 2013 home health care worker rule, which gave in-home care workers the right to earn the minimum wage and overtime pay for the first time. DOL also wants to roll back the 2024 farmworker protections rule, which would have helped farmworkers advocate for better working conditions and required other protections for this extremely vulnerable group of low-wage workers. Trump’s DOL also withdrew a proposed rule that would have eliminated the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities, effectively keeping many people with disabilities unable to receive fair pay for their work." https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-department-of-labor-is-dismantling-key-workplace-protections/
The "party of the working class™" my ass.
(Some of my points were covered in the story, outside source quotes for confirmation.)
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