Press Release

黑料不打烊Applauds OSHA鈥檚 Withdrawal of Vax-or-Test Emergency Temporary Standard

Jan 25, 2022

Arlington, Virginia 鈥撀黑料不打烊 President and CEO Chris Spear issued the following statement today after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration聽聽it is withdrawing its vaccine-or-test emergency temporary standard, which the U.S. Supreme Court stayed on January 13:

鈥淲e successfully challenged this misguided mandate all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, because it was a clear overstep of OSHA鈥檚 authority, and because it would have had disastrous consequences for an already-overstressed supply chain. The Supreme Court bounced it, and we are pleased to see the agency has now formally withdrawn it, sending this ETS to the dustbin where it belongs.聽

鈥淭he American people depend on us to deliver their essential goods each and every day, and we鈥檒l continue to fight any proposals out of Washington that hinder our ability to do so safely and efficiently. That includes any attempt by OSHA to create a similar, permanent standard without going through the legally required process, including an actual risk-based analysis.鈥

聽of state trucking associations and national business groups in challenging the ETS in federal court and filing an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay. Of the 14 emergency applications, the coalition鈥檚 was one of only two that the Supreme Court chose to hear oral arguments on.聽