{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-praises-biden-proposal-ensure-workers-have-voice-workplace-health", "Scott Praises Biden Proposal to Ensure Workers Have a Voice in Workplace Health and Safety", "2023-11-14", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "House", "VA", "Robert C. \"Bobby\" Scott", "S000185", "bobbyscott.house.gov", "bobbyscott", "https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "As originally released by the Committee on Education and the Workforce, Democrats\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Robert C. \u201cBobby\u201d Scott (VA-03) sent a letter to the Department of Labor regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration\u2019s (OSHA) proposed rule to strengthen employees\u2019 voice in ensuring the health and safety of their workplace.\n\nThe proposal clarifies that workers may authorize a third party, including a union representative, to join an OSHA walkaround health inspection when an inspector deems that they are reasonably necessary and would aid the inspection.\n\n\u201cI support OSHA\u2019s plan to clarify in regulation workers\u2019 rights to select a third party from the community rather than a fellow employee to serve as their representative,\u201dRanking Member Scott wrote. \u201cI applaud OSHA\u2019s vision of expanding its instruction to the OSHA inspectorate about the potential positive contributions to an inspection from third-party worker representatives.\u201d\n\nWhile praising the proposed rule as a step in the right direction, Ranking Member Scott also urged OSHA to further strengthen workers\u2019 representation in health inspections by accepting a worker-designated representative by default, rather than subject the representative\u2019s participation in an inspection to OSHA approval.\n\n\u201cOSHA has wisely recognized in the Proposed Rule that it should advise its inspectorate to recognize the value that a third party put forward as the workers\u2019 walkaround representative can add to an inspection\u2026[However] OSHA should more boldly rewrite the Proposed Rule to accept workers\u2019 choice of representative by default and maximize workers\u2019 rights to representation of their own choosing throughout the inspection, enforcement, and contest processes,\u201d Ranking Member Scott continued.\n\nRead the full text of the letter here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-praises-biden-proposal-ensure-workers-have-voice-workplace-health"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.506392076611519, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}