Worker Safety Advocates Slam Republican Effort To Slash OSHA's FY '11 Funding

House GOP plans to make deep cuts to the OSHA budget and scale back the agency's regulatory reach – as part of the party's proposed sweeping reduction in federal spending over the rest of fiscal year 2011 and government-wide regulatory reforms – have union officials and worker safety advocates galvanized in their opposition. OSHA supporters were bolstered, however by the Obama administration's decision to seek a budget increase for the agency in fiscal 2012, and are gearing up for a possible funding battle between the Democratic controlled Senate and GOP House on the issue. Congressional Democ