If Only She Had a Union, She Might Still Have her Job

President Donald Trump’s administration continues taking the side of business over the workers whom he vowed repeatedly during his campaign to place at the top of his agenda. The latest assault is an effort to hide facts about the number of workers killed on the job.

It’s as if, by making it harder to learn the truth, the corporate-backer-in-chief can make the problem disappear. It won’t work.

As reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper, Politico, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which administers federal workplace safety laws, last week removed details of worker deaths from near the top of its home page.

Details such as the date, name and cause of death are now buried deeper in OSHA’s website, making it much harder for people to learn the truth. And if they do find that information, they will find it’s missing a crucial piece of data – OSHA is refusing to list cases where a worker died but the company was not cited for a violation. That reduces the reported number of worker fatalities by about 20 percent compared to what the Obama administration disclosed.