George Miller: “we should support the Obey amendment because this legislation is just such an incredibly comprehensive raid on the…”

“we should support the Obey amendment because this legislation is just such an incredibly comprehensive raid on the rights of American workers. Whether those American workers seek to have a bargaining position with their employer over their working hours, terms, wages and conditions, where that right is taken away because of the attempt here to overturn the President's Executive order; whether those workers seek to work in a safe workplace, where we see as serious a problem as the ergonomic standards being set aside in this bill; going even further, not letting OSHA collect the data. Apparently, the Republicans on this side do not know this when they see it. Let me tell my colleagues, we see it every time we get on an airplane. We see a flight attendant with their hands in the braces; people that cannot do the job on the airplane, because their hands are in braces. We see it on the assembly line and we also see it when almost 3 million claims are paid for the injuries that are suffered for this. Mr. Chairman, the question is, do we stick our heads in the sand, as the Republican amendment would have us do, or do we go out and try to meet this problem? This is about whether or not our workers get to continue to be able to work without disability or whether they are sent home from the workplace and they are put on disability and they see that their ability to support their families is dramatically reduced. This is about our families. This is about Americans.”