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Benedict Arnold

Did you know republicans recently voted to eliminate the requirement that employers keep track of Deaths and Injuries at the workplace?

In a narrow result that divided along party lines, the Senate voted 49 to 48 to eliminate the regulation called
the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule.
Finalized in August and blocked by a court order in October, the rule would limit the ability of companies with recent safety problems to complete for government contracts unless they agreed to remedies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/republicans-poised-to-roll-back-worker-safety-regulations/2017/03/06/87a6c266-fd27-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.ab867c9b2f3e

Posted - March 28, 2017
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  • 6988
    Trump did say he was going to get rid of a lot of regulations.
      March 28, 2017 11:48 AM MDT
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  • Yes he did...

    Unfortunately there was not enough focus on what those regulations were and drill down to the specifics such as things like this.
    For example, the huge controversy about Obiecare and the people who supported him learning that  their own healthcare may be in jeopardy from an appeal.
    The devil is always in the details

      March 28, 2017 1:56 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    no, i didnt know that but now i do
      March 28, 2017 3:26 PM MDT
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  • That I do find distressing, GoatJumper, and no I did not know it.

    My father, a logger who graduated high school in 1929, had stories of people killed in the woods, on the job, and the body just loaded on the skiff to be taken in at the end of the work day...the work did not even pause.

    It was always amazing to him in the 1950's when safety became emphasized, records were kept and publicly posted..."xxx days w/o a time-loss accident." So many people in the early 20th century struggled so hard for worker safety, against such tremendous odds.
      March 28, 2017 7:11 PM MDT
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