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Industry, Labor Unions Offer Competing Claims In Challenges To Silica Rule


March 10, 2017 at 06:01 PM
Industry and labor groups are offering competing arguments in lawsuits challenging the Obama OSHA's landmark final rule overhauling limits for workers' exposures to silica dusts, with unions faulting industry assertions that the prior limits adequately protected workers and industry rebuffing union calls for stronger protections and medical surveillance.

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