OSHA's acting administrator, Jonathan Snare, has told BNA's Daily Report for Executives that OSHA plans to continue the "balanced approach" of Henshaw before him. In other words, business as usual at OSHA. Corporate special interests used to fear OSHA, but the administration they put in office has effectively made OSHA the black hole of government as part of a larger pattern of failure to serve the public. Which is a shame, because workers need sensible safeguards now more than ever. When the federal government doesn't set a fair standard applied across the board, workers must somehow negotiate for safer and healthier work conditions. Their ability to conduct those negotiations, however, has been getting weaker just as the need for it has been increasing: according to a new report, existing procedures for determining whether or not workers can band together into a union are undemocratic. As a result of the barriers in their way, 23,000 U.S. workers are dismissed or discriminated against on the job each year 'for exercising their legal rights to form or join a union, according to American Rights at Work.