NIOSH Backers Launch Salvos In Spending Fight; GOP Pressure On Labor Budget Continues

Key backers of NIOSH funding are launching a campaign against a pair of revived proposals in the Obama administration's budget request to zero out funding for education and training programs that advocates view as crucial to replenishing the labor pool in the occupational safety and health field. But simultaneously the Obama blueprint for fiscal 2013 to fund Labor and Health and Human Services (HHS) has come under increasing fire from Republicans for not tightening agency budgets further. Among the groups leading the charge against the proposed NIOSH spending cuts is the American Industrial Hy