AFL-CIO Sues OSHA to Force Temporary Worker-Safety Standard (2)

The AFL-CIO filed a lawsuit to ask a federal court to compel the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue an emergency temporary standard to protect workers from the novel coronavirus.

The emergencypetition, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday, outlines how tens of thousands of workers have been infected on the job through exposure to ill co-workers, patients, customers, and members of the public who had not been screened before entering a workplace. If the federation of labor unions is successful, all U.S. workplaces subject to OSHA rules will ...