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Where Is Eugene Scalia? Trump Labor Secretary Ignores Worker Struggles During COVID-19 Crisis
After a staggering ten million Americans joined the unemployment ranks in two weeks’ time, Trump Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia has been conspicuously absent from the national response.
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Trump Tells States To Hide Labor Data, What He Accused Obama Administration Of Doing In 2016
Whether the administration is doing this to protect Trump’s poll numbers or to excuse their plan to bailout big industries before helping workers, this is irresponsible and reckless.
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Trump Labor Secretary Scalia is M.I.A. as Frontline Healthcare Workers Ask His Help Combating the Coronavirus
Scalia must set aside his rigid anti-government ideology and immediately advance the Obama-era rule that would help protect frontline health care workers dealing with infectious outbreaks like the Coronavirus.
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Eugene Scalia’s Corporate Client List Makes Him the Most Conflicted Labor Secretary Pick in Recent Memory
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For any corporation that has violated workers’ rights or defrauded consumers and is in need of legal representation, Eugene Scalia’s resume belongs at the top. It’s what he built a career on. It’s clearly what he’s good at. But it’s also his decades of experience as a high-powered attorney for corporate interests like Wal-Mart…
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FLASHBACK: Trump Labor Pick Eugene Scalia Argued Companies Shouldn’t Necessarily Bear Legal Responsibility for Bosses Who Sexually Assault or Threaten Employees
Some of Scalia’s past legal opinions reveal there was no line he was not willing to cross to shield companies from legal responsibility, even to argue that workplace protections against sexual harassment and assault put too much onus on company leadership.
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BREAKING: Allied Progress Launches New Ad Campaign
Senate Must Allow Investigation of Labor Secretary Acosta’s “Sweetheart Plea Deal” for Billionaire Involved in Numerous Child Sex Abuse Crimes.
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Throwing Working Families Under the Bus, Senate Confirms Trump’s 2nd Choice to Head Labor Dept.
Acosta is a scandal riddled figure best known for his mismanagement during the Bush administration.
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Workers Take a Back Seat as Acosta Drives Toward Confirmation Following Committee Vote
“Today’s vote was yet another example of lawmakers ignoring a Trump nominee’s glaring deficiencies and instead marching with the President in lockstep as he hands important economic posts in our government over to those who are more interested in pleasing Wall Street insiders and powerful special interests than the hard-working Americans who built this country.”
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Employment Law Daily: Acosta Facing Tough Questions at Nomination Hearing
Most commenters expect Acosta to be confirmed. However, that does not me the nominee will not face some tough questioning. On the day of the hearing, Allied Progress released a report supporting the nationwide progressive advocacy organization’s characterization of Acosta’s record as “one of scandal, mismanagement, and a callous disregard for the concerns of American workers.”
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Labor Nominee Acosta’s Record Exposed: Scandal, Mismanagement, Callous Disregard for Concerns of Hard-Working Americans
Acosta’s record was exposed as one of scandal, mismanagement, and a callous disregard for the concerns of American workers.