Health-Care Workers in Grave Danger Absent OSHA Rule, Unions Say

The Biden administration’s decision to cancel its OSHA Covid-19 standard protecting health-care workers violates federal law and leaves those workers exposed to a grave danger, unions said in a federal appeals court brief filed Thursday.

“Whatever discretion OSHA may have in other contexts, it does not have the discretion to abandon healthcare workers while it formulates a final rule on a timetable of its own choosing,” the unions told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit.

Their brief comes in a Jan. 5. lawsuit filed by National Nurses United, the American Federation of Teachers, and other ...