Labor, Senate Democrat Offer Tepid Response To Trump's OSHA Nominee

Labor union officials and a key Senate Democrat are offering a tepid response to the Trump administration's intended nomination of Scott Mugno, a FedEx vice president, to lead OSHA, seeking a “vigorous and thorough” vetting on key issues but not outright opposing the choice. “[I]t could have been much worse,” Jordan Barab, former deputy chief of OSHA during the Obama administration said in an Oct. 30 post to his workplace safety blog Confined Space . Barab argues that...