Unions Sue OSHA In Two Appellate Courts Over Narrow COVID-19 ETS

Labor unions are suing the Biden OSHA over its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS), setting the stage for a ruling on whether regulators and the White House lawfully found that only medical workers face “grave danger” from the pandemic, just as newly released draft materials show officials originally sought an economy-wide ETS. The AFL-CIO and at least two sector-specific unions filed suit over the COVID-19 rule on June 24, after labor groups broadly criticized the Biden administration’s decision to limit...