Word: osha
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...party is about people. He emphasizes the importance of helping every citizen reach a minimum standard of living, softening violent changes in economic cycles and working toward full employment. This is his second run against Ballenger, whom Neill blasts for his stance against wage increases, social reforms and OSHA...
...Hauling UPS's Freight" [BUSINESS, Jan. 29]. A graphic accompanying the story identified UPS as the "biggest contributor" to the Coalition on Occupational Safety and Health. In fact, UPS did not make any financial contribution to that organization, although we have contributed to the support of other efforts on OSHA reform. Also, you did not point out that the Teamsters' PAC fund (the Teamsters represent 170,000 UPS employees) spent $8.5 million in the 1993-94 election cycle, more than twice UPS PAC spending for the same period. On the issue of UPS's raising its maximum package weight limit...
...lobbying hard for bills proposed by Republican Representative Cass Ballenger of North Carolina and New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg that would curb OSHA's power to issue citations and fines for infractions of hundreds of rules and regulations. The sweeping change would transform the agency from a watchdog on safety matters to a toothless "adviser" to industry. Ballenger's measure has picked up 155 co-sponsors and, with some tinkering, could pass the House this spring. As it happens, Ballenger got $10,000 from UPS for his 1994 election race. Gregg, who contends that "OSHA has developed a well...
...employer has been a more in-your-face foe of OSHA than UPS. Last month the company joined a coalition of 250 business and trade groups that stifled OSHA's attempts to develop a standard aimed at reducing the incidence of conditions like carpal-tunnel syndrome, an inflammatory wrist ailment triggered by repetitive motion. The victory was won even before the agency had a chance to issue the proposed standards for discussion. UPS called the regulations "intrusive, expensive [and] paperwork producing" in an influential letter to House members. The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that monitored...
Since the honest, industrious middle class obviously has little concern for the safety of the offices, factories, etc. where they must toil, the Republicans have sunk their teeth into OSHA as well. Many OSHA regulations will be made voluntary, wisely allowing the captains of industry to make the appropriate cost/benefit decisions regarding dangers in the workplace. And some hazards, such as repetitive stress disorders, will be completely off-limits from OSHA regulations...