United Steelworkers of America President Leo W. Gerard is put out — OSHA and several steel industry trade associations have formed an alliance on safety without any union involvement.
"OSHA and the industry both need help," Gerard said in a statement, "but they're not going to find it from each other. The trade associations have opposed every OSHA standard that applies to the steel industry. So far as we know, they have no full-time professional safety staff. And OSHA's only recent activity in the industry was to propose a weakening of the Coke Oven Standard."