The State : Suit to Save OSHA Filed
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A lawsuit to halt Gov. George Deukmejian’s plan to abolish Cal/OSHA and turn responsibility for worker safety over to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration was filed in San Francisco Superior Court by Assemblyman Richard E. Floyd (D-Hawthorne), chairman of the Assembly’s Labor and Employment Committee, and by a coalition of labor groups. Floyd charged that if Cal/OSHA is abolished, “the governor will be responsible for perhaps hundreds of needless deaths and thousands of needless injuries each year.” The governor says he must reduce program costs to avoid violating a constitutional limit on state spending.
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