Political Quotes

“Republicans have a bad reputation for supporting the rich and the powerful and disregarding the needs and concerns of low-wage workers, poor people, and working people in general; and they have wasted no time in attempting to repeal worker safety standards. I am surprised that they would move so quickly and so blatantly to do this. This attempt by Republicans to disapprove the results of the congressionally mandated OSHA study is a blatant example again of the extent the Republicans will go to protect those corporate interests. During all of this delay and these delaying tactics, over 600,000 workers suffered injuries caused by repetitive motion, heavy lifting, and forceful exertion. These kinds of injuries affect every sector of the economy: nurses, who are lifting people, rolling over the sick, taking care of their bed sores; cashiers who stand there all day punching and counting and adding; computer operators. Everybody knows about this. Members should talk to the computer operators in their own offices, talk to their office workers. Many of them are requiring special equipment to work with to protect them.”