Asked what a Biden administration meant for its members, the meat institute, whosesaid it “will interact with the Biden administration on behalf of the industry as we did with the Trump administration.”
The Obama administration also considered increasing line speeds but ultimately scrapped it over concerns for worker safety. Increasing the number of birds processed in a minute generally means that workers are pushed closer together, according to a 2016 Government Accountability Office report. Despite CDC and OSHA guidelines to space out workers, meatpacking companies have resisted spacing out workers during the pandemic, saying it would be too costly.
Celeste Monforton, a lecturer in public health at Texas State University who worked at the Department of Labor for more than a decade, said issuing an emergency standard would be “very aggressive, robust action.” The guidance on distancing, for instance, tells meatpackers to place workers 6 feet apart, “if possible.”
OSHA could look to states, some of which have their own agencies governing worker safety, for examples of emergency temporary standards. Virginia became the first to do so in July. Michigan and Oregon followed, and California“It could be a blueprint for a kind of standard that the federal government could get out quite quickly,” said Gregory Wagner, a former senior advisor at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and adjunct professor at the Harvard T.H.
The world is waiting for announcement of new US Admn policies
That just means higher prices and higher taxes. How about distribute the f’ng vaccine instead of hitting the whole country in their pockets?
47 years of talking - Joe Biden.
Illegitimate President. PERIOD!!!
Wage equality by legislation NOT unions
SupremeCourt
This can not be true - Biden can’t speak. Literally not capable.
Fact Check: FALSE! Joe Biden was hiding in his basement rarely uttering a cohesive statement
this is terrible news