Thursday, December 21, 2017

How an Industry Group Is Driving Trump's Workplace Safety Agenda

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42952-how-an-industry-group-is-driving-trump-s-workplace-safety-agenda
"The Trump administration is fundamentally reshaping the nation's approach to workplace safety, scrapping Obama-era protections and tools intended to hold dangerous companies accountable. Some of these rollbacks have hewed to the National Association of Manufacturers' agenda. For example, finding out about workers' injuries and deaths now is harder to do because of changes under the Trump administration. In March, President Donald Trump signed a resolution, after it narrowly passed Congress, that companies vying for large federal contracts no longer had to disclose labor violations, including workplace safety penalties."