When it comes to job safety and health rules and enforcement, Republican Oligarch President Donald Trump may be very bad news, in terms of both rules and leaders, for Workers. But maybe Workers shouldn’t be surprised. In Trump’s first White House term, the unspoken directive to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was “do nothing.” Fewer than four new safety rules were issued in those four years and on-site OSHA inspections virtually vanished during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Inspections were performed by phone, e-mail or fax. The vanishing rules have been to the glee of the Corporate Class, which has hated OSHA for decades. According to the Law Firm Fisher & Phillips, which appears to lean to the management side, the leading rule to bite the dust will be the one that lets independent observers, especially Union Job Safety and Health Specialists, accompany OSHA Inspectors at accident sites. The second big-time rule Trump’s OSHA would trash, the firm says, is one the agency is working on now, a standard to limit Worker exposure to airborne disease pathogens.

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