Today President Bush signed legislation that kills the OSHA standard designed to safeguard millions of workers from crippling workplace injuries. It's a standard that took 10 years to develop.

This is a president who said, as a candidate, "Judge me by my record." The record is clear: the first substantive legislation signed by President George Bush is a rollback by Congress of a health and safety standard - the first in OSHA's 30-year history.

Ergonomic injuries are our nation's biggest workplace safety problem—causing 1.8 million injures on the job every year. Killing this worker safety standard will result in hundreds of thousands more such injuries.

This calculated assault on America's working families led by Bush and congressional Republicans at the behest of big business is part of a concerted effort to repress workers and weaken unions in America in order to further tilt the political balance in this country in favor of corporate power.

We will continue to aggressively fight until every worker in every workplace is protected from crippling and disabling injuries. It's time to stop the pain.

For information: Deborah Dion, 202-637-5036