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The Trump administration last Tuesday rescinded the Department of Labors persuader rule requiring companies to disclose any consultants or lawyers contracted for anti-union persuasion efforts. The most recent in a series of anti-worker regulatory rollbacks, the decision has drawn harsh condemnation from union leaders and working people.
When the Labor Department issued the rule in 2016, it was hailed as a win for workplace transparency. Workers would have the right to know when their bosses hired outside union-busters to influence organizing decisions.
Then-Secretary of Labor Tom Perez explained it would ensure that workers have the information they need to make informed decisions about exercising critical workplace rights .Informed decisions are the best decisions.
In the wake of Tuesdays announcement, AFL-CIO National Media Director Josh Goldstein slammed the administrations decision to shield the sinister practices of employers and their hired guns.
By repealing the persuader rule, the Department of Labor is siding with corporate CEOs against good government and transparency, Goldstein said. They have thrown a dark veil over the shady groups employers hire to take away the freedoms of working people.
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A Dark Veil (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jul 2018
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niyad
(113,098 posts)1. rip. . . drip. . . .drip. . . until it is a torrent, and we drown.
BSdetect
(8,995 posts)2. They want a servile serf state.