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House Budget Attacks Job Safety for Rooftop Workers

This just in from the Center for American Progress:

HOUSE GOP BUDGET LAUNCHES FULL ON CLASS WAR – Dave Jamieson: “In addition to blocking President Obama’s health care law and slashing funding for job training, the budget plan presented by House Republicans for health and labor programs this week would scuttle several worker safety protections put forth by the Department of Labor…The budget also takes aim at an obscure but notable Labor Department rule intended to reduce the death and maiming of construction workers who toil on rooftops. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had planned to ramp up the enforcement of harness rules for roofers working on residential construction sites. In a move that will likely please the construction lobby, the Republican plan forbids the agency from doing so.”

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Boehner’s Budget ‘Tantamount to Class Warfare’

Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s proposed budget is ”tantamount to a form of class warfare,” according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). If enacted, “it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.

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