Back in 2013, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration issued a Letter of Interpretation to allow union representatives to accompany OSHA inspectors onto non-union work sites.
While it generated some coverage at the time, and despite calls for OSHA’s withdrawal of its Letter of Interpretaion, not much had come of the proposal—until now.
Apparently, according to the Daily Caller, OSHA acting on its intent and is now letting union representatives onto non-union work sites:
Union representatives from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are now accompanying federal government safety inspectors on site visits to review labor complaints at nonunion private businesses, The Daily Caller has learned.
SEIU and other labor unions can accompany the government inspectors on site visits due to a quiet and contested Obama administration rule clarification issued last year in response to a request from a union representative.
SEIU agents recently accompanied an inspector from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a division of the Department of Labor, on three visits to nonunion work sites under contract with the Houston-based janitorial company Professional Janitorial Services (PJS).
