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OMAHA (DTN) — A House subcommittee has launched an investigation into COVID-19 outbreaks at meatpacking plants owned by Tyson Foods Inc., JBS USA and Smithfield Foods Inc., as well as the response from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. When COVID-19 started showing up in packing plants across the country early last year, packing plant closures caused cattle markets to crash even as meatpackers raised prices on retailers. Farmers faced a backup of livestock on the farm, leading to billions of dollars in losses, and packers scrambled to safeguard plant workers. Since the begi...

The Biden administration has made it clear the unions will play a key role in promoting the anti-China drive and enforcing the deadly reopening of schools and workplaces.

It's too early for labor organizers to run victory laps, but Biden's first few days suggest ambitious plans are ahead.

Friday, January 22, 2021 On Jan. 19, 2020, the day before President Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, his transition team announced that James Frederick will be appointed deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, a non-Senate confirmed position. In this role, Mr. Frederick will run the Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) until President Biden nominates someone for assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health and the Senate confirms the nominee.  Since September 2019, Mr. Frederick has been a part...

President Joe Biden chose a longtime United Steelworkers official for a top position in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as the new administration moves to bring labor voices into the U.S. Department of Labor, the agency's website said Wednesday.