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A Dollar General store is seen, Aug. 3, 2017, in Luther, Okla. Dollar General has agreed to pay a $12 million fine and to improve conditions at its thousands of retail stores nationwide to make them safer for workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday, July 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) **FILE**

Dollar General settles with OSHA for $12 million over violations

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

SpaceX employee injury rates exceed industry standards

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A construction worker was killed and two people were taken to the hospital after a portion of a crane dropped onto the Southeast Third Avenue bridge over the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Thursday afternoon, April 4, 2024. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Federal investigation begins of fatal Florida crane collapse; bridge reopens

Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a Labor Day event at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 19, in Philadelphia, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

Biden to allow union reps into nonunion workplaces as part of OSHA inspections

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A sign stands outside the U.S. Department of Labor's headquarters, May 6, 2020, in Washington. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety violations in its investigation of the July 2023 workplace accident that caused the death of Duvan Pérez, a Guatemalan teenager who had been a contract worker at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Miss., the agency said in a news release on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Federal labor investigators say poultry company’s inaction led to the death of a teenage worker

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

In this screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC, smoke rises from an explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, Pa., Friday, March 24, 2023. (WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP)

R.M. Palmer was found liable for not evacuating workers before March explosion

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

The Dollar General store is pictured, Aug. 3, 2017, in Luther, Okla. Dollar General violated federal labor law and “clearly intended to interfere” with worker rights in efforts to quell unionization at a Connecticut store, a National Labor Relations Board judge said Monday, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Dollar General on the hook for $17 million in workplace-safety fines

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 18, 2020, photo, mail delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb. On Friday, Dec. 23, 2022, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming A U.S. Postal Service uniform store was robbed in Tennessee in a scheme to impersonate postal workers and break into homes. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Postal Service fined by OSHA over conditions at Virginia facility

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

OSHA investigating death of Amazon worker in Prime Day event

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

One of many anti-vaccine mandate activists holds a sign during a rally outside Phoenix City Council chambers as the city paused implementation of a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the 14,000 city workers, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Phoenix. On Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, a federal appeals court panel allowed President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

OSHA cancels business vaccine mandate after Supreme Court loss

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Protesters gather for a rally against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Businesses take divergent paths after Supreme Court nixes part of Biden’s vaccine rule

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This artist sketch depicts lawyer Scott Keller standing to argue on behalf of more than two dozen business groups seeking an immediate order from the Supreme Court to halt a Biden administration order to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation's large employers during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, is seated at right. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Supreme Court blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate on big businesses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

DeMarcus Hicks, a recent graduate of nursing school who is working as a contractor with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, gives a person a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, on the first day of a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Federal Way, Wash. The clinic is operated by King County Public Health and other partners with support from FEMA staff and contract workers, who have been traveling across the U.S. to set up temporary community vaccination centers, including in some areas with mobile bus-based clinics, in efforts to increase the availability of COVID-19 vaccinations and booster shots. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

OSHA vaccine mandate takes hold as Supreme Court justices deliberate legality

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court shown Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Supreme Court justices challenge Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on businesses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returns to his office at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in this file photo. Mr. McConnell and 46 other Senate Republicans signed onto an amicus brief to the Supreme Court opposing the Biden OSHA vaccination mandate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

GOP lawmakers urge SCOTUS to strike down Biden workplace vaccine-or-test order

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. On Dec. 17, OSHA extended the deadline for large businesses to comply with President Biden’s vaccinate-or-test rule after a federal appeals court reinstated it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

OSHA moves back vax-or-test deadline for private sector to Feb. 9

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People hold signs as several hundred anti-mandate demonstrators rally outside the Capitol during a special legislative session considering bills targeting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Nov. 16, 2021, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Democrats’ message shifts as Biden’s hard line on worker vaccines backfires

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this file photo, President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., on Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Are vaccine mandates worth the hassle? Economists, lobby groups say voluntary measures work better

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A woman holds a sign as several hundred anti-mandate demonstrators rally outside the Capitol during a special legislative session considering bills targeting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Tallahassee, Fla. Florida Republicans continued Tuesday to advance legislation to blunt coronavirus vaccine mandates in businesses as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis' push to combat White House virus rules. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

White House pushes lawless vaccine mandates

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. The fate of Biden’s vaccine mandate for larger private employers may come down to a lottery that determines which federal circuit court will consider the matter. Conservative groups have filed challenges to the rule in right-leaning courts, while unions that argue the rule doesn’t go far enough have done so in left-leaning courts. The multiple cases are expected to be consolidated, and it will be up to a random drawing — expected on Tuesday, Nov. 16 — to determine where that will be. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

OSHA has ‘suspended activities’ related to Biden’s vaccine mandate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times