Texas teachers union urges state to keep mask mandate in place
From CNN’s Chris Boyette
A custodial worker vacuums a classroom at an elementary school in Leander, Texas, on Friday, September 18, 2020. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Texas State Teachers Association President Ovidia Molina issued a statement Tuesday saying that despite making progress against the Covid‐19 pandemic, removing state health mandates, including the mask wearing requirement, risks “disastrous consequences,” especially in schools.
“The Texas State Teachers Association urges the governor to keep his mask mandate in place, especially in our public schools, and see that it is enforced,“ the statement said.
Friday, January 22, 2021
On January 21, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued an executive order requiring the federal government to take “swift action” to protect U.S. workplaces from the COVID-19 pandemic. He ordered the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to, among other things:
consider, within the next two weeks, whether an emergency COVID-19 standard is necessary and, if so, to implement such a standard by no later than March 15, 2021.
issue within two weeks “revised guidance to employers on workplace safety during the COVID-19 pandemic”; and
review its current enforcement efforts, and “identify any short-, medium-, and long-term changes that could be made to better protect workers and ensure equity in enforcement.”
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