Mitch McConnell's License To Kill

The Orwellian marketing of a bill to kill workers

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If you've been following this “will-there-be-a-stimulus” saga, you probably know that a big issue for progressives—no, actually, for anyone who cares about staying alive at work—is the amoral push by Republicans to include in any stimulus bill what I call a “License To Kill”: a liability shield for corporations to insulate CEOs from lawsuits when workers get sick or die in their workplaces.

It’s worse than you think. Courtesy of the good folks at National COSH we learn how despicable the law would be. It’s in a bill by John Cornyn—he’s McConnell’s right-hand henchman—that would block any safety and health or worker-advocate federal agency from taking any action against companies who are making people sick…and killing them, not to mention the people who workers unintentionally sicken because they are forced to show up to an unsafe workplace and, then, they go back home.

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