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Mark Pocan: “It would exempt some businesses from OSHA requirements…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 41:55

It would allow for employment discrimination. It wants to weaken child labor law, protections for kids who work in meatpacking facilities and mines, and It would exempt some businesses from OSHA requirements completely. And it cracks down on unions. And let me go a little more into that. It actually would do what Scott Walker did by banning public employee unions. (41:55–42:00)

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