As for Becky McClain, this is just the end of the beginning. She says
she has lost her career, her health and her health insurance. But she
recognizes her case is in the vanguard of many other cases and worker
protests to come before enforceable and openly accessible standards and
practices become the way of doing business for these labs.
For when it comes to developing materials that are inherently latent,
subvisible forms of silent violence, business as usual can become cruel
and unusual punishment for innocent, defenseless scientists, lab
technicians and other workers.
Such is the weighty responsibility of David Michaels and the new
managers of the long moribund, underfunded OSHA in the coming months.
she has lost her career, her health and her health insurance. But she
recognizes her case is in the vanguard of many other cases and worker
protests to come before enforceable and openly accessible standards and
practices become the way of doing business for these labs.
For when it comes to developing materials that are inherently latent,
subvisible forms of silent violence, business as usual can become cruel
and unusual punishment for innocent, defenseless scientists, lab
technicians and other workers.
Such is the weighty responsibility of David Michaels and the new
managers of the long moribund, underfunded OSHA in the coming months.
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