(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a release today from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, Deluzio (PA-17) announced today that his Public Service Worker Protection Act is gaining momentum and now has 50 co-sponsors, including his Republican co-lead on the measure, Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01). This bill seeks to give an expansion to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) to include all workers in the public sector under its defined safety protections on the job. The milestone of this legislation acheiving fifty co-sponsors is also occurring during the shutdown of the federal government of the United States of America, which is leaving federal workers totaling tens of thousands either working without pay or furloughed.