California unions say state law will protect workers, despite Trump's 'anti-union' pick
California unions don’t expect President Donald Trump’s administration to get any friendlier toward labor with the president’s pick of corporate attorney Eugene Scalia for Labor secretary.
Trump nominated the son of late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to succeed Alexander Acosta, who resigned last week amid questions over his role in a lax 2008 plea deal in a sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein.
“We’re ready for the worst, but on the other hand this administration from Day One has been vigorously anti-union, so I don’t know how much different it will be under Scalia than it was under Acosta,” said California Labor Federation spokesman Steve Smith.
Scalia, 55, challenged Labor Department regulations while working for business clients at a Washington, D.C. law office. He previously served as the Labor Department’s solicitor under George W. Bush, and has fought Obama- and Clinton-era labor rules.
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(Sacramento Bee)