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Worker-Safety Groups Say OSHA Virus Protections Cover Too Few

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 6/16/21

The Biden administration's decision to limit coronavirus worker protections to covering health-care workers has come under fire from a national coalition of unions and workplace-safety advocates who say it's one reason many communities are lagging behind in the national vaccination drive.

On June 15, protests and informational pickets were held in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Among the places the activists aired their grievances was outside the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's regional office in lower Manhattan.

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