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Workers BetrayedErgo Standard

On March 20, 2001, President Bush--in his first major legislative action--signed legislation repealing OSHA's ergonomics standard. This important worker safeguard, issued in November 2000, was ten years in the making and would have prevented hundreds of thousands of workplace injuries a year.

But, bowing to Big Business groups who opposed any ergonomics regulation, after the 2000 election, the Republican controlled Congress and the Bush Administration joined together to kill this worker protection measure.

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