Reply #10: OSHA workers at the bottom, can be ultraprogressive and not matter [View All]

they are controlled by higher ups.

what inspectors think themselves, does not matter. Just as reporter's politics, do not matter. Higher ups control them too.

I dont know if OSHA is hamstrung by bush. Just pointing out a logic error in the post above.

I do know the number of inspectors was cut radically by Reagan, and surely not much changed for the better since then, as funds havent increased in the fed budget.

Nader's CSPI 'food police' reports are a good info source on food inspection decline.

In this era of deregulation, i fairly doubt osha would "be on them in a heartbeat". Just my general impression, thats all.

PS the FDA sure is not on companies "in a heartbeat" . It is sickening to read at FDA site, of how gingerly the gov chastises the "filthy" condition of tuna in cans.

How 1 tuna company denied FDA warehouse access, and got away with it. How tuna was then impounded, yet the co. went right ahead and sent it to stores.

How the reprimands of FDA are overpolite and have no penalties in many cases. How the FDA is just ignored! How the FDA couched the offenses in roundabout words that took all sting out of the offense.

If osha is like FDA, then OSHA will not "be on them in a heartbeat". IMHO.