Friday July 25, 2008, 3:38 am
There is a link in the story to the proposed new rules. It's a PDF document that you can read for yourself. The proposal adds another layer of procedure as well as challenges to be answered before the Labor Department can even CONSIDER new regulations for a workplace toxin. It also wants to change the limits of acceptable toxicity exposure by assuming no workers will remain at any one job for 45 years, which has been the standard measuring rule used.

There is a lot of gobbledygook - but read pages 15-20 especially. THIS is where the meat of this proposed reg is hidden...fully padded with assumptions and speculations!

The chairs of both the House and Senate Labor Committees say the bill must be withdrawn because it violates rules requiring federal agencies to alert the public twice a year to any directives it considers.

Now it's Elaine Chao's turn. I'm betting that somehow these slimeballs in DC will machine-gun this through.

Friday July 25, 2008, 4:05 am
What's particularly disturbing to me is that these regs cover miners and nuclear plant workers. HOW can this goddess-awful labor department assume how long these people will be on the job? I have heard some real horror stories of the corruption in nuclear-plant inspections (we used to have 2 active nukes in Connecticut - thankfully, one was shut down) and I am SURE the workers are not safe AT ALL...nor the surrounding communities, for that matter. But that's a blog for another day...

Friday July 25, 2008, 4:10 am
thanks Cate ...awesome as always :) smile

Friday July 25, 2008, 6:20 am
noted, thank you, Cate

Friday July 25, 2008, 6:20 am
Noted with disgust. As always, thanks for letting us know this Cate.

Friday July 25, 2008, 7:03 am
Noted, thanks Cate.
Disgusting, and insane. Like the Labor Dept. is going to follow the instructions of Congress and turn over their records. Bush's Labor Dept. will tie the hands of OSHA (office of safety and health administration)if this "midnight" bill is passed....

Friday July 25, 2008, 7:09 am
Disgusting... Thank you for sharing the information Cate! ~

Friday July 25, 2008, 7:26 am
With all that the right/wrong are doing to workers, it will, I hope Unite US against the Corporate Powers that be.

Friday July 25, 2008, 7:48 am
noted...

Friday July 25, 2008, 8:02 am
315 signatures needed for Julie! Justice for Julie

Friday July 25, 2008, 8:20 am
Why don't they just drop the last vestiges of pretense and call it what it truly is? THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVE LABOR.

Friday July 25, 2008, 8:41 am
I can't stand that woman, and she has no business in that position.
Oh hell, she has no business on this planet in my opinion.

http://shameonelaine.org/

Friday July 25, 2008, 8:43 am
You got that right, Kathy...she's another one so full of SH*T her eyes are brown.

Friday July 25, 2008, 9:58 am
THANK YOU AND NOTED WITH DISGUSSED,THANK FOR THIS CATE.....

Friday July 25, 2008, 10:10 am
Working is hazardous to your health, I'm ready to stop. Noted thank you Cate.

How can we pay these people to do this to us?

Friday July 25, 2008, 11:09 am
Sickening and outrageous. I don't think that you get much more corrupt or harmful than Elaine. Noted. Thanks, Cate.

Friday July 25, 2008, 11:51 am
She is suppose to have a brain.This is sickening.I wonder who is paying her off!Anyone with common sense should know better

Friday July 25, 2008, 11:56 am
If I were she I would hide and not show my face out of pure shame!Does she care about anyone but herself?I AM SEEING RED!I am truly afraid for my grand childrens lives.

Friday July 25, 2008, 1:15 pm
Elaine's job is to gut safety measures for the benefit of large corporations.

Elaine Chao had a petition or two against her. She refused the. All 25,000+ signatures.

http://shameonelaine.org/2008/03/27/elaine-chao-refuses-25000-letters/

TY, Cate.

Friday July 25, 2008, 2:22 pm
They have been doing this crap for years, I have seen it too many times when I worked on Construction sites they knew Ohsa was comming so we were on alert all satey in place to the T. so they wouldn't get wrote up or fined then once they leave its back to business as usal same health hasarzed, suck as proxie floors, lots of bad chemicals in it, abostes, sheetrockdust, all this stays in building long after there built it takes a building 7 years to settle so all that time it doing it thing. Now day that I done is they put in its call expanion joints in the sheetrock so it can move and cause less cracking in the walls. Buts there's so much crap way more than people know about thanks Cate. I agree take there labor laws and shove it.

Friday July 25, 2008, 2:58 pm
They need cheap labor in order to compete,we are costly with all our demands for safety,retirement,health insurance,and enough pay to live on.I honestly that believe that they are avidly working to reduce our standard of living to that of India and China.There are so many here now willing to work for rice or beans,and a rental for 20,that we have little value anymore.Only the top 20 or 30% of our citizens are seen as having any real future and (we all know where they come from)the rest of us tread water for the 60-80 years of our life.

Friday July 25, 2008, 4:56 pm
Hmm, great news Cate, thanks and noted. Just a thought, I guess this proves that money talks and BS walks. We, namely all of us, need a change and we need to make that happen. NOW!!!!!!

Friday July 25, 2008, 5:03 pm
Cate is on the ball, again!

Friday July 25, 2008, 6:37 pm
thank you cate

Friday July 25, 2008, 6:49 pm
Thanks Cate.
Already signed for Julie.Thank you! You signed at 2:14 PM PDT, Jul 13, 2008

Friday July 25, 2008, 11:17 pm
What amazes me is how Al Gore landed advertising on this site...But again money buys people off... Al Gore is fake as so is Abama...You can thank the Democrats for opposing these kind of safety bills - Democrats are not on our side...Wake up people...get the real facts about the Republicans....and Obama Illinois Freshman Senator who believes in Black Liberation Theology exposed! If you really care about our country you will log on to www.gop.com I dare you! get educated log on to www.gop.com
No Bamanation - No Democrats! We voted for them in 2006 and now they rule the senate floor and look what has happen - increased gas prices and they give our ss benefits to illegals even if they broke the law to get here...
You own this to yourself...log on to www.gop.com

Friday July 25, 2008, 11:39 pm
I followed up on Cate's story with the Washington Post. Carol D. Leonnig who wrote the story did not report fair and just journalism "quote - the Democrats in Congress and public health scientists" blah..blah...what do you call this - there are many just Republicans that have fought for safe working environments! You see this is how the Media tricks you with the party's. You can no longer follow the crowd - Al Gore is a fake! I spend hours in research! You need to start to think for yourself...but you own it to yourself to get the facts www.gop.com Because you live here!!! log on to www.gop.com

Saturday July 26, 2008, 12:13 am
I have difficulty believing anyone who consistently pushes the GOP on Care2, who has been a member since 2005 with no friends and a nearly blank profile.
If you are truly a real member Charlene, I dare you to prove it! Go on...I double dog dare you!
/rant
Thanx Cate for updating us on this proposal which protects Big Bu$ine$$ rather than the American worker!

Saturday July 26, 2008, 6:05 am
Charlene...you are so full of misinformation I feel sorry for you.

Saturday July 26, 2008, 6:42 pm
Thanks Cate Your posts are always interesting and informative. I look forward to them daily. Good Job!!!

Saturday July 26, 2008, 7:11 pm
So its forward to a workers utopia,with the Republicans then Charlene?All of that welfare slashing (not that the dems didnt do a fair share of that of course),tax cuts for the trillionaires,stagnation of the minimum wage,and attacks on medicare were just a front for the real agenda of improving the lot of the toiling classes..
Bush is secretly Subcomandante Marcos..and CHE -ney? well I think we know whose side he is on now.
Its been a damn fine disguise..I would never have sussed it,without a little help.

Sunday July 27, 2008, 1:39 am
Thanks for this relevant news!

Mary

Sunday July 27, 2008, 12:14 pm
I wonder why the Democrats are not campaigning about this. I have not seen this in any campaign advertisement. Where is the public outcry?

This is something that really matters. Where are our leaders when we need them?

Sunday July 27, 2008, 2:55 pm
Out practicing to be president, or in backrooms taking kickbacks from Big Oil Big Pharma, and the AMA...LOL

Sunday July 27, 2008, 8:45 pm
They said Chao's agency violated the rules requiring federal agencies to alert the public twice a year to any directives it was considering, and they also asked her to turn over internal documents of any meetings or communications Labor officials had with business or outside groups relating to the proposal.


Elaine Chao, the ONLY original Bush cabinet
secretary, is such a disgusting little Bush
toadie. She proudly serves her corporate masters.

Charlene, what color is the sky in your world?

Thanks, Cate.
noted.

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