Posted on 10/23/2021 2:18:26 AM PDT by Libloather
In a rare move, federal labor officials have threatened to take over three states’ workplace safety programs because they failed to adopt emergency COVID-19 rules to protect healthcare workers.
That admonition, labor advocates say, also serves as a thinly veiled warning that resisting the forthcoming federal vaccine mandate for most healthcare workers and employees at large companies likewise could cost states their regulatory power over workplace safety.
“This is definitely an effort to send a message that [the Occupational Safety and Health Administration] is going to take any defiance of the next standard very seriously,” said Jordan Barab, who served as OSHA’s deputy assistant secretary of labor during the Obama administration and now writes a blog about workplace safety issues.
Earlier this month, OSHA sent the White House a proposed rule that would require companies with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccination or regular testing. President Joe Biden has called for an expedited rulemaking process, and some labor experts think the agency could publish the new rule any day. The mandate would take effect immediately.
OSHA’s crackdown on Arizona, South Carolina and Utah is based on the agency’s June emergency standard for healthcare workers that included requirements for physical distancing, cleaning, physical barriers, personal protective equipment, ventilation and other protections. Most states fell under that emergency rule automatically, but 21 states maintain their own workplace safety agencies for private sector employers. Those states must meet or exceed OSHA standards.
The feds say Arizona, South Carolina and Utah have failed the “at least as effective” test by refusing to match their standards to the new federal rule.
**SNIP**
“But their continued refusal is a failure to maintain their state plan commitment to thousands of workers in their state.”
(Excerpt) Read more at modernhealthcare.com ...
And when those federal officials show up in any state, arrest them on the spot.
Waiting for Florida Governor DeSantis to comment!
OSHA has accepted that for 18 months. This is political blackmail.
You have to hand it to Democrats, they know how to leverage Federal Power.
Now if they could only use the same power to get control of illegals they may be on to something.
However, the bottom line is that states still have power to resist Federal over-reach if they have the will to use it.
Nothing anyone has done has protected anyone from the Wuhan Flu. A HUGE percentage of people who took 1, 2, or even 3 shots have gotten COVID. OSHA is asking the impossible.
And they know it.
>>Waiting for Florida Governor DeSantis to comment!<<
Then we’ll hear from Abbott in Texas. Follow the leader.
DeSantis is awesome!
Congress, SCOTUS and their staffs, welfare recipients and illegals are NOT mandated to take the “vaccine”. Just American workers who will lose their job if not jabbed. Can we ask why?
I miss President Trump so much.
At this point, can we stop pretending that the US Constitution is still in effect? It’s a joke.
Not on social media.
Damp Nazis.
I really miss The Constitution.
Indeed. with the Federal government putting out media propaganda against individual states, we are in a de facto state of civil war..
OSHA - once again putting new meaning to the word ‘Draconian’.
Of course it is.. Perhaps soon the IRS will begin investigations of companies that don't adhere to Obindens illegal babbling bull excrement...
This is testing the limits on a small scale, before Joe’s mythical mandate arrives.
The massive societal test: state regulator, governor, state legislator, local sheriff, employee, worker, and consumer response to that upcoming mandate.
It will soon be time for states to ignore fed mandates and withhold fed income taxes, these cold be directed to state treasurer and held in trust until sanity returns in DC.
Oh for a repeal of income, SS, Medicare, taxes and install a fed sales tax collected at the state level with a check signed by the governor monthly to the US treasurer.
This would certainly put teeth in the tenth amendment.
WWG1WGA!
The tyranny of government continues as it becoming more and more weaponized.
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