I have problems with the author’s position. Even if the GOP really existed the way we were conned into believing it would go down fighting for its voters, it cannot effectively do anything until Xiden lays down his OSHA card mandating vax. Author doesn’t show he understands how OSHA rules and emergency rules work, and the administrative process OSHA has to follow in order to come up with a rule. Therefore his proposal that the red states need to pass laws negating an unpublished OSHA rule would most likely not withstand constitutional challenge.
In addition, some states federal OSHA enforces private sector workplace safety (e.g. TX). Other states (e.g. NC) the state enforces private sector workplace safety under an OSHA approved state plan that must be at least as effective to federal OSHA. The federales provide $$$ every year to states like NC who enforce OSHA (so the feds don’t have to do that work). Once OSHA passes its mandate, states like NC would have to implement it in its state plan and be approved by OSHA. States like TX are completely outside of OSHA enforcement. Bottom line - states since 1970 have ceded workplace safety to the federal givernment through OSHA. Courts have affirmed this; 10th Amendment out of the window here. At this point, it would be very difficult for a GOP state legislature to be able to come up with effective law that would displace an OSHA rule-making.
The legal challenge most likely will originate from workers who are denied jobs because they refused the vax. Even companies that do not like the new regulation will not fight it. Compliance is cheaper and besides, they are not the protectors of individual freedom.
This is the evil of Xiden, he is making the weakest members (workers) in this game to bear the brunt of feral givernment power - actually taking away a person’s individual liberty, forcing him to make a medical decision by completely discarding “informed consent”, replacing it with legal decision regarding one’s health choice - basically coercion to avoid financial punishment. In a just country, the givernment would have to show it has no other options here given the extreme danger of the disease to all workers that ssuch a choice is necessary and no accommodations can be made for workers who refuse the vax. After 18 months of data that do not show such devastating danger actually exists in the workplace, an emergency rulemaking seems illegitimate on its face.
Unfortunately, the way I have seen the courts stomped on the constitution and damage individual liberty at the expense of givernment, corporate and political party power - a lot of people will be financially suffering in the future.
There’s a lot to complain about the GOPe and Trump’s unintentional exposure of them as part of the problem in our country. However, the author wasted ink here. There may be other things the GOP can do, but one has to wait for the feds to show their hand. The fact that this did not just roll out of OSHA 3 minutes after Xiden announced the workplace mandate shows that OSHA’s lawyers are trying to craft rules that can pass constitutional muster. As I have said elsewhere, this rule has little to do with worker safety.
I used to work for PepsiCo. They were the American company that trail blazed the globalism we see today. They were very much woke 20 years ago. PepsiCo’s CEO at the time, Indra Nooryi, was set to be Hillary’s Treasury secretary. If any company was going to jump on the vaxx mandate bandwagon, these are the guys you’d expect. I talked to a current employee recently to see how long he had to comply. He tells me the company is telling employees they won’t have to comply. I know there have been wildcat strikes in production over “suicide shifts” this summer and fall already. I don’t think this liberal stalwart thinks they can function after taking a vaxx mandate personnel hit. The Vaxx Nazis might have finally jumped the shark on this edict.
And remember the initial stance on shot mandates that OSHA took, and the backpeddling that occurred a few days later.