Monday, June 14, 2021

Meatworkers union blasts Biden administration

The United States Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said soon after President Joe Biden took office that all workplaces would face more stringent COVID-19 protocols.

Now it turns out that OSHA is only applying that to the health care industry.


In a statement, international president Marc Perrone of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union said “today’s new COVID workplace safety standard from OSHA represents a broken promise to the millions of American workers in grocery stores and meatpacking plants who have gotten sick and died on the front lines of this pandemic.


“Vaccinations are helping us take control of this pandemic, but the danger for these essential workers is far from over. Thousands of frontline food workers are still at risk of infection,” he said in a union-issued statement.