Trump's anti-worker labor nominee is more like the 'Secretary of Corporate Interests'

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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 Trump’s 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 committee’s ranking member. “If there’s one consistent pattern in Mr. Scalia’s long career, it’s 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 Trump’s cabinet. However, that has not stopped lawmakers and others from sounding the alarm on Scalia’s record as an attorney representing corporate giants like Walmart and the Labor Department’s chief legal officer during President George W. Bush’s 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 country’s largest trade union, said in a statement after Thursday’s 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]

1. We may be in the minority in the Senate, but we need to raise holy hell about this nominee.

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.