Union Steps Up Pressure as Biden Administration Delays COVID-19 Safety Rule for Workers
Growing concern that worker protection may not be enacted. Delay Coming from âTop Political Levels of the White House.â
Despite growing pressure from labor groups and worker advocates on Capitol Hill, the Biden Administration continues to delay an emergency COVID-19 worker safety protection that was supposed to launch March 15âand itâs still unclear when (or even if) the measure will be enacted.
âWe have called for an ETS since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with other labor unions, and we believe it is imminently necessary to protect workers. While the last administration ignored us, we were encouraged when President Biden included the ETS in the Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety.â
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OMAHA (DTN) Lee Reichmuth, who runs a cattle feedyard near Lindsay, Nebraska, recalls a year ago seeing “records broken” in cattle markets, such as boxed beef price moving from a little more than $2 a pound to the range of $4.75 a pound while, at the same time, the April futures contract for fed cattle took a $40 dip in value.
A year ago, as much of the country was in lockdown, the supply chain for meat buckled as workers by the hundreds at packing plants across the country tested positive for COVID-19, causing both beef and pork packing plants to shut down across the Midwest and Plains. By the third week of April, the packing crisis had shredded as much as 25% of meat-processing capacity nationally.