The proposed abolition of OSHA

The proposed abolition of OSHA
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 at 11:48:14a PST

Now bear in mind that OSHA has a staff of about 2,000 people nationwide and a budget of $738.7 million (for FFY2024, which was actually a 17% increase over FFY2023, thanks to the Biden administration), about half of which is spent on grants and state aid and education outreach.

Not a lot of fat. Hell, Mu$k earns the equivalent of the OSHA budget every eight days. There are EIGHT MILLION workplaces in the US that fall under the OSHA regulations. This is the kind of thing that you just have to say, “ok, who benefits?”

See also: https://www.osha.gov/

Let’s leave aside for the moment that as of 2019, Tesla’s one factory in California had in FIVE YEARS racked up three times as many OSHA violations as the ten largest US auto plants COMBINED, in the same five year period. And remember, that’s as of 2019, and Tesla is a lot bigger now.

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