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California workplace safety chief tapped to lead OSHA
Safety experts lauded Doug Parker s nomination, pointing to his track record policing workplace Covid-19 risks at the state level.
According to the Labor Department, Secretary Marty Walsh has requested “a rapid update” on OSHA’s progress on a coronavirus workplace safety standard. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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President Joe Biden will nominate California s workplace safety chief, Doug Parker, to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the White House said Friday.
The role has taken on outsize importance amid the pandemic and as the administration is weighing whether to issue an emergency temporary standard to create a set of enforceable, Covid-19-related workplace safety regulations.
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The role takes on atypical importance as Biden attempts to resuscitate a limping job market.
Julie Su, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a longtime advocate for low-wage workers, was among the names initially floated for Labor secretary. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo
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President Joe Biden has offered Julie Su, who heads California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the role of deputy Labor secretary, and she has accepted, two people familiar with the decision told POLITICO.
Su, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a longtime advocate for low-wage workers, was among the names initially floated for Labor secretary. But Biden nominated Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a longtime friend who had the backing of the AFL-CIO. Walsh s Senate confirmation hearing is on Thursday.
Card-carrying union member Walsh, Biden s Labor nominee, wins businesses respect
Walsh is a pragmatist, and he wants to get stuff done,” Drew Schneider, director of labor and employment policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, said.
Marty Walsh talks about the postponement of the Boston Marathon during a news conference, Friday, March, 13, 2020, in Boston. | Michael Dwyer/AP Photo
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When Marty Walsh leaped straight from the top of a trade union federation to Boston City Hall in 2014, local businesses braced for the impact of a labor leader and his progressive policies.
They had little to fear from the new mayor. The following year saw “arguably the biggest building boom in the history of the city of Boston,” as one city official described it, with a record 70 development projects under way by July 2015 including a rising rate of new construction using nonunion jobs. Walsh would go on to convince companies including Reebok, GE and Lego to relocate