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Under the curtain of progress The bureaucracy, “efficiency”, The new Trump administration has not been lost any time quickly Irritation of all federal agencies Responsible for the protection of workers and consumer safety. Now, in one of the most terrible decisions so far, Trump has taken advantage of a former Amazon executive – a company that has repeatedly and repeatedly Interposed with federal organizers Above ignorance For the health and safety of its workers – to head the agency in charge of overseeing the health and safety of workers at the national level.

Friday, Bloomberg I mentioned that David Kelling, the former director of global road safety and transportation safety at Amazon, was named to choose Trump to head the Osha Health and Safety Department (OSHA).

If you know anything about Amazon’s long history of workers’ safety problems, you know how absurdity of this choice. OSHA has long danced with Amazon due to workers’ safety violations. Those violations Back yearsIt is spread throughout the company’s wide distribution network. Recently, the agency The company was martyred In 2022 and 2023 for various issues, and last February, Amazon It was cited again By OSHA for workers’ protection violations in three of its warehouses. At that time, Assistant Secretary of OSHA, Doug Parker said: “Amazon operating methods create serious conditions and work, which leads to serious injuries in the workers. They need to take these injuries seriously and implement a strategy at the company level to protect their employees from These known risks that can be prevented.

At the same time, a conversation The investigation of the Senate In the company’s activities, I found that Amazon has been overpowered and repeatedly from her internal research, which indicates that her strict work quotas lead to workers’ injuries.

“I want to express my cardiological grapes to President Trump to nominate me to be the next OSHA official in the US Department of Labor,” Keeling, Keeling Books on LinkedIn. Before working for Amazon, Keeling worked as a manager to comply with the safety of UPS from 2011 to 2018, before becoming Vice President of the Health and Safety Company from 2018 to 2021, the new Republic Reports. He worked in UPS during the same period when OSHA was martyred at the delivery company due to safety violations, as New Republic notes. “It is an unbelievable honor, and if it is confirmed, I am excited about the opportunity to work with Minister Lori Chavez-Tremer and Deputy Secretary of State Keith Sonding for more OSHA mission to enhance safety and health in the workplace,” via Keeling via LinkedIn.

Sonderling, who worked in the Ministry of Labor during the first Trump administration, famous I issued federal guidance This is mentioned that the party workers were considered contractors, not employees-a great victory over the giants of the participation of Uber and Lyft.

Amazon’s response to calling for her federal regulations was to attack the federal agencies that issue that regret. Last year, Amazon joined Musk’s Spacex litigate Against the National Employment Review Council, NLRB (which protects the rights of American workers) was accused of being “unconstitutional”. Now, if Keeling is confirmed, the company will also have a former executive in the company running the agency responsible for investigating workers safety practices.