It's my understanding that UL was and is funded by insurance companies. Companies that urn the UL label are cheaper to insure because they have fewer law suits.Companies that don't have higher insurance rates and find it harder to compete. Sounds like a reasonable situation where market forces work to regulate the market place. OSHA appears to be redundant here.

In a normal situation, I would say the workers are free to go work for an employer that offers better working conditions. La Boetie in his essay "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" wrote:

Obviously there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement: it is not necessary to deprive him of anything, but simply to give him nothing; there is no need that the country make an effort to do anything for itself provided it does nothing against itself. It is therefore the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude.

Couldn't the same be said of an employer that holds that much power? Do you take up the yoke for security or do you take yourself someplace else? We always have a choice.

UL was started in 1892, OSHA in 1971. Seems to me they were probably getting along fine for all that time.

Ever hear of Underwriters Laboratories? You don't need government regulation for product safety.

He didn't used to be but he is now. And He is my senator so I'm in a better position to know.

Yeah, that makes me feel better and better about the price.

... I was. It seems maybe the price has come down some. I paid $8,000 for mine 2 years ago and they are 16 channel but I have 75% and 90% loss and couldn't get by without them. Inherited nerve deafness. I still can't here the keyboard though.. oh, wait! never mind. I hear Bluetooth is gonna be incorporated in the next generation.

It might be better called Blackmail.

Apple?