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Trump Seeks To Merge Labor, Education Departments, Raising OSHA Fears


June 21, 2018 at 06:23 PM
The Trump administration is proposing to merge the Departments of Education (DOE) and Labor (DOL) into a new Department of Education and Workforce in which OSHA would be placed into an “enforcement” sub agency, a plan that is drawing concern from Democrats and labor groups who fear it would undercut the agency's workplace safety mission.

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