Republican Rep. Andy Biggs believes states and private companies should be left alone to set their own safety standards (or lack thereof). It's clear; Republicans don't care about everyday workers. #PeopleOverProfits www.inc.com/kit-eaton/re... - ThreadSky

kindofnerdy.bsky.social • 24 days ago

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs believes states and private companies should be left alone to set their own safety standards (or lack thereof).

It's clear; Republicans don't care about everyday workers.

#PeopleOverProfits

https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/republican-pressure-to-disband-osha-rises-amid-sweeping-trump-orders/91143762

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cecefrombc.bsky.social•24 days ago

We’ve already seen this show….during Covid, meatpacking plants, refusing to follow safeguards to protect their workers…Boeing looking into their own safety issues. Hard pass thank you.

knewsy.bsky.social•24 days ago

But hey - no more workers comp then so the company owner gets a new yacht

onenonjohn.bsky.social•24 days ago

Yeah because they can police themselves! Quick rewind to the financial crisis of 2008 and all of the legislation put in place to protect consumers because corporations couldn't police themselves and stay solvent!! You want to repeat that again? My salary stayed stagnant for 5 years! Hard pass!!

navark.bsky.social•24 days ago

This is another effort to hand over control of the US to Russia and China. The US shipbuilding industry would grind to a halt without OSHA to protect workers who work daily in a dangerous environment. It isn’t the clean factory that makes aircraft or missiles. It’s hard, hot, dirty and dangerous.

kittywestmeow.bsky.social•24 days ago

I can’t say it’s “unbelievable” anymore because it’s totally believable now!! #PeopleOverProfits

bselected.bsky.social•24 days ago

Oh this is just STUPID!

jjvarichak.bsky.social•24 days ago

A clear indicator that republicans don’t care if people get hurt on the job site, and don’t care if they don’t have health insurance

kathyestelle.bsky.social•24 days ago

OSHA WTF

cdpaiz.bsky.social•24 days ago

it's all fun & games until blue states cease doing business with red states due to their chronic derangement and seemingly unshakable addiction to their beloved fuhrer's magafascist bowel vapor

stormwolfhall.bsky.social•24 days ago

They are fucking insane and are traitors to the American People

brodyrocks.bsky.social•24 days ago

Plane crashes aren’t enough

brodyrocks.bsky.social•24 days ago

The point

polittlecat.bsky.social•24 days ago

The lack of safety standards by private companies and states is precisely why there is an OSHA.
Everything they are tearing down was created to safeguard the public from some kind of tragedy that happened because profit was more important than people.

nickel76.bsky.social•24 days ago

Triangle Shirtwaist disaster was caused by DEI…

dfny10.bsky.social•24 days ago

He’s an ass

sweetmell0.bsky.social•24 days ago

My hubby is a union pipe fitter. This pisses me off because they know why OSHA was created and the direct, measurable affects of these safety standards. Because people get injured and die doing the work. I guess survival of the fittest will be in play. This will weed out the dumbass MAGAts too.

independentme.bsky.social•24 days ago

andy not-so-biggs is an idiot!! Always has been and always will be.

republiCONs only care about their pockets!!

crkolarz.bsky.social•24 days ago

This is madness

ceolivesmatter.bsky.social•24 days ago

Biggs knows which side his bread is buttered on - the money side!

#ProfitsOverPeople

It's always all about the money - how else can I keep my fleet of superyachts afloat?

You would be destitute without us!

#CEOLivesMatter
#CEOLivesMatterMost

kindofnerdy.bsky.social•24 days ago

"Vox report in 2020 argued that a rollback of workplace safety inspections under the previous Trump administration was responsible for 'more deaths,' and reminded us that about '90 percent of serious accidents happen at workplaces that haven’t been inspected by OSHA.”

kindofnerdy.bsky.social•24 days ago

Critics say, "The abolition of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration could be a catastrophic backward step for protecting workers."

johnlaroe.bsky.social•24 days ago

But many very serious conservative thinkers say, "While abolishing OSHA may lead to an unacceptable level of fatal or disabling workplace, um, events in the short-term; we are confident that the Invisible Hand of the Marketplace will eventually correct this, [*coughs*] when we run out of workers."

mutsy67.bsky.social•24 days ago

I hate Biggs.

spiritplumber.bsky.social•24 days ago

Do not anger the Goddess

spiritplumber.bsky.social•24 days ago

elisajstewart.bsky.social•24 days ago

Isn’t Andy an unindicted member of the insurrection? He, like all republicans now, are just bent on destroying America.

OSHA protects workers.

Republicans don’t.

Pay attention.

katzilla01.bsky.social•24 days ago

Workers should know that they have never gotten a fair deal when Repugs are in power. They are against unions cuz unions fight them for the benefit of their members and non members.

johnlaroe.bsky.social•24 days ago

And non-union workers in union shops should join their unions.
Really.

katzilla01.bsky.social•24 days ago

They should! But they know if the unions win on something, they will end up benefitting..It's a selfish position, imho.

dinozo69.bsky.social•24 days ago

Andy Biggs is an incompetent fool. I’m ashamed he’s from my home state of Arizona.

jjvarichak.bsky.social•24 days ago

He’s a fucking moron

dinozo69.bsky.social•24 days ago

Definitely no argument here. I’ll never understand how so many idiots get elected to congress.

jjvarichak.bsky.social•24 days ago

I’m in Minnesota and the idiot we have in my district is Pete Stauber, he’s on the same level of dirtbag as Biggs

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