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Published 3 hours ago
on September 21, 2019
By Common Dreams
Progressive groups and Democratic lawmakers expressed serious concerns Thursday about corporate attorney Eugene Scalia President Donald Trumps pick to lead the Labor Department as the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee met to consider his nomination.
Instead of nominating a Secretary of Labor, President Trump has nominated a Secretary of Corporate Interests, declared Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the committees ranking member. If theres one consistent pattern in Mr. Scalias long career, its hostility to the very workers he would be charged with protecting, and the very laws he would be charged with enforcing if he were confirmed.
The committee is expected to decide next week whether to advance Scalia, the son of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to a full Senate vote. Given the Republican majority in the Senate, he is expected to be appointed to the post in Trumps cabinet. However, that has not stopped lawmakers and others from sounding the alarm on Scalias record as an attorney representing corporate giants like Walmart and the Labor Departments chief legal officer during President George W. Bushs administration.
Eugene Scalia has demonstrated that he remains committed to protecting corporations over working people and is unfit to lead as Secretary of Labor, Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME, the countrys largest trade union, said in a statement after Thursdays hearing.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/trumps-anti-worker-labor-nominee-is-more-like-the-secretary-of-corporate-interests/
I guess son and father from the Federalist Society reign of BS, never read this part during there examination to get a license:
The Preamble..................
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of ...
Atticus
(15,124 posts)He is demonstrably anti-labor and is apparently as much of a bought-and-paid-for corporate whore as his corrupt old man. If you have a Republican Senator or any doubt about your Democratic one, call or email and be polite but INDIGNANT that they might even consider voting to put this fox in charge of the chicken house.
If Democrats don't stand up for labor we may as well turn out the lights and go home.