Elections Corrupt, anti-worker president appoints swamp creature corporate whore as Secretary of Labor

[xcvbn]

Rust belt jobs will be coming back any day now

 

[PEB]

President Trump is the most anti-union president since President Reagan and that's saying something. He will make sure his appointments are young and have a history of overthrowing union rights.

So much for states rights now lets go after workers rights. Next term is cuts to social security, Medicare, PELL grants, research grant money, bomb Iran, sell weapons to Saudis and push for more arctic drilling. This guy is a piece of work.

 

[ultramanhyata]

Trump will fire this hire in a year and get praise for it.

As long as Scalia never cut a sweetheart prosecution deal for any billionaire pedophiles I think he will be safe. The failure bar for the Trump administration is pretty fucking low.

 

[PainIsLIfe]

What do Republicans love even more than sleazeball lawyers who will do the bidding of major corporations for fat checks? Legacy politicians born with silver spoons in their mouths.

Meet Eugene Scalia, son of greasy racist and guy who died while taking a bribe, Antonin Scalia.

President Donald Trump found another nominee for labor secretary that’s angered unions and labor activists.

After former labor secretary Alexander Acosta resigned after widespread criticism of his role in handling the Florida prostitution chargers against the late Jeffrey Epstein, Trump nominated conservative lawyer Eugene Scalia.

Kyle Bragg, president of 32BJ SEIU, said Trump’s new appointment might be worse than the previous.

“Eugene Scalia has built his career advocating on behalf of banks and corporations like the Koch brothers, Walmart and Goldman Sachs and has had a significant role in rigging the system against working people whether white, Black or Brown,” said Bragg. “To now put him in charge of the very agency tasked with protecting workers’ rights and safety is an appalling joke made at the expense of working people everywhere.”

Bragg’s sentiments were shared by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. He said if a person’s past determines their future then labor’s in for a fight against Scalia.

Scalia, the son of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, has fought ergonomics standards, threatened to destroy workers’ retirement savings, challenged the expansion of health care and dismissed repetitive injuries as ‘junk science,’” Trumka said. “His extreme views are in direct conflict with what America deserves from a secretary of labor.”

In a statement, the White House said that Scalia “is a renowned labor, employment and regulatory lawyer.”

Scalia’s not new to government work. In the mid-to-late 1980s, Scalia served as a speechwriter to Secretary of Education William J. Bennett. In the early 1990s, he served as a special assistant to Attorney General William P. Barr. In 2001, Scalia joined George W. Bush’s labor department as Solicitor of Labor responsible for regulatory and enforcement matters. He’s currently a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States and has served as a lecturer in labor and employment law at the University of Chicago Law School.

The California Labor Federation wanted to remind Americans of other things Scalia has done.

“Over the last few decades Eugene Scalia has been anything but a friend to labor,” read CLF’s statement. “He spent his early career at a law firm as a partner and a member of its labor and employment practice group, but none of his work actually benefited working people. While at his firm, Scalia made a name for himself by fighting labor regulations and lobbying on behalf of Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries and other corporate giants.”

In 2010, Scalia lobbied on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to oppose financial industry regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act. He also helped shut down the proposed campaign finance transparency rules by the DISCLOSE Act, which would’ve helped to disclose dark money spending.

Trump took to social media to praise his latest nomination.

“I am pleased to announce that it is my intention to nominate Gene Scalia as the new Secretary of Labor,” said the president on Twitter. “Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labor field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience working with labor and everyone else.”

Bragg begged to differ. He said he’s not looking forward to fighting the Trump agenda some more, but labor has no choice but to.

“In every conceivable way, Scalia has fought to undermine the right of people to join unions and has rolled back protections for consumers and whistleblowers,” stated Bragg. “The Senate must only confirm a Labor Secretary who will carry out the Department of Labor’s mission to protect workers and families and not, yet another creature emerging from the swamp.”

http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/sep/05/unions-denounce-new-labor-secretary-nominee-eugene/​

So as a corporate lawyer he advocated stances that benefited his client? Isn't that what goid lawyers do?

Btw, accusation of bribery without evidence is bad form.

 

[PainIsLIfe]

You can laugh - as a troll that is your right - but union membership unarguably effectuates higher wages, better and safer working conditions, and more prosperity for the middle and working class. These are not things that are remotely ambiguous. Republicans tried to prevent labor unionization and failed. When they failed, the middle class was built and a period of prosperity unseen in history followed. Now that they're winning on behalf of their corporate johns and destroying unions, wages, and worker and consumer protections, the middle class is disappearing.

Although you standing up for high-end lawyers who make millions that you will never attain by destroying our country and protecting the powerful is rich.

Your article brought up the Koch brothers and when I last checked most of their employees make more than SEIU members.

It's almost as if the seiu guy was just rambling off some talking points.

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

No thats “Fredo” man keep up!

If the comrade hates this guy so much to call him a whore and greasy....the guy probably isn’t that bad

Am I the only one to chuckle at “sleeze ball lawyer” from a partner at the pan, trots, jack esquiere law firm?

You mean Not Really Lawyers and Sons?

 

[ObamaPhoneLady]

So as a corporate lawyer he advocated stances that benefited his client? Isn't that what goid lawyers do?

Btw, accusation of bribery without evidence is bad form.

It's actually libel which is a cardable offense now.

 

[lilelvis]

Fuckin’ botsky....

 

[Amerikuracana]

He's trying too hard to be a Republican. Right now you have government unions (fighting for more taxpayer money for jobs that create little wealth) and the uaw as the main union powers.. So it's harder to be pro-union than at most times in the last 100 years, but I'm trying.

If the dems run out a normal human being who doesn't lie about society and create fake victims that need extra rights, I could easily vote del in 5 years. Please make this a possibility, lefties. Please.

 

[ultramanhyata]

Your article brought up the Koch brothers and when I last checked most of their employees make more than SEIU members.

Holy shit! Members of management at Koch Industries make more than union workers! You've really blown the lid off this one! You're a regular Woodward and Bernstein, bro.

Here is something you will not find in any American city: A union member with the same qualifications as, doing a comparable job to, a non-union worker making less than the non-union worker.

(The final determinative figure being the monetary value of each worker's total compensation package.)

 

[PainIsLIfe]

Holy shit! Members of management at Koch Industries make more than union workers! You've really blown the lid off this one! You're a regular Woodward and Bernstein, bro.

Here is something you will not find in any American city: A union member with the same qualifications as, doing a comparable job to, a non-union worker making less than the non-union worker.

(The final determinative figure being the monetary value of each worker's total compensation package.)

No I'm talking about their hourly workets making more than seiu workers. As a matter of fact you can check glassdoor for yourself:

Pension Benefit Rep $14/hr
Administrative Asst $12/hr
CNA/HHA. $15/hr
Caregiver. $13/hr
Maintenance. $17/hr


Edit Koch Industries:
Service Desk Specialist $18-24/hr.
Benifits Analyst Specialist $71k

 

[ultramanhyata]

No I'm talking about their hourly workets making more than seiu workers.

First how are you defining "their"? Second, are you comparing SEIU members to workers in the same city? Third, Glassdoor doesn't provide the total compensation package of comparable union and non-union workers.

 

[PainIsLIfe]

First how are you defining "their"? Second, are you comparing SEIU members to workers in the same city? Third, Glassdoor doesn't provide the total compensation package of comparable union and non-union workers.

These are people who work for SEIU ie. office staff.

See my edit. A service desk specialist is basically a receptionist making $18-24 at Koch compared to a SEIU admin asst making $12. And a pension benifit rep at SEIU making $14 compared to one at Koch making 71k/yr.

Didn't SEIU spend a year or so telling us 15 was a livable wage? And I'm pretty sure that it's cheaper to live in Witchita than DC.

And are we going to magically pretend that SEIU is giving super benifits to go along with those shit wages?

 

[ultramanhyata]

See my edit. A service desk specialist is basically a receptionist making $18-24 at Koch compared to a SEIU admin asst making $12. And a pension benifit rep at SEIU making $14 compared to one at Koch making 71k/yr.

"At SEIU" doesn't even make sense. What company's administrative assistant who is a member of the SEIU are you comparing to a KI administrative assistant in Wichita? As I said at the outset, the positions have to be "comparable".

In other words, an AA working in a company with 100 employees doesn't have comparable job responsibilities to one working with 10,000 employees.

And the same-city parameter matters to control for labor supply. It has nothing to do with cost of living.

 

[PainIsLIfe]

"At SEIU" doesn't even make sense. What company's administrative assistant who is a member of the SEIU are you comparing to a KI administrative assistant in Wichita? As I said at the outset, the positions have to be "comparable".

In other words, an AA working in a company with 100 employees doesn't have comparable job responsibilities to one working with 10,000 employees.

And the same-city parameter matters to control for labor supply. It has nothing to do with cost of living.

1st - the SEIU jobs are peole that work in their DC office. They litterally work for SEIU; just like a union orginizer works for SEIU, it's not a hard concept.

2nd- shouldnt the one with 10k employees be making more? They should at least be making a "livable" wage as defined by the people they work for.

3rd- the bottom line is that koch pays secretaries and benefit reps better than SEIU pays any similar position. Yet the SEIU guy throws out shit like "he worked for Koch".


Its sad that they dont pay their own employees what they have called a livable wage and it's sad that you dont see the hypocrisy of it all.

 

[ultramanhyata]

1st - the SEIU jobs are peole that work in their DC office. They litterally work for SEIU; just like a union orginizer works for SEIU, it's not a hard concept.

2nd- shouldnt the one with 10k employees be making more? They should at least be making a "livable" wage as defined by the people they work for.

3rd- the bottom line is that koch pays secretaries and benefit reps better than SEIU pays any similar position. Yet the SEIU guy throws out shit like "he worked for Koch".


Its sad that they dont pay their own employees what they have called a livable wage and it's sad that you dont see the hypocrisy of it all.

More confused, false equivalency. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt in this discussion but it's clear you're just manipulating data to further an agenda.

If union workers cost their employers less than non-union workers given comparable duties in the same city there would be no such thing as "union busting". Saying union members receive greater compensation than non-union workers for the same job in the same locale is like saying water is wet.

Maybe you Koch toadies should just stick to the criticisms of unions that are valid. The ridiculous overreach is a bad look.

 

[LangfordBarrow]

“Greasy” is a slur against Italians

Also, who the hell cares what Kyle Bragg and Richard Trumka think? Labor unions are some of the most corrupt institutions out there. The idea that they represent “labor” is laughable.

Then Trump is what?

 

[LangfordBarrow]

No thats “Fredo” man keep up!

If the comrade hates this guy so much to call him a whore and greasy....the guy probably isn’t that bad

Am I the only one to chuckle at “sleeze ball lawyer” from a partner at the pan, trots, jack esquiere law firm?

You've really embraced the American way...

 

[LangfordBarrow]

You can laugh - as a troll that is your right - but union membership unarguably effectuates higher wages, better and safer working conditions, and more prosperity for the middle and working class. These are not things that are remotely ambiguous. Republicans tried to prevent labor unionization and failed. When they failed, the middle class was built and a period of prosperity unseen in history followed. Now that they're winning on behalf of their corporate johns and destroying unions, wages, and worker and consumer protections, the middle class is disappearing.

Although you standing up for high-end lawyers who make millions that you will never attain by destroying our country and protecting the powerful is rich.

But he triggered the libs...

 

[PainIsLIfe]

More confused, false equivalency. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt in this discussion but it's clear you're just manipulating data to further an agenda.

If union workers cost their employers less than non-union workers given comparable duties in the same city there would be no such thing as "union busting". Saying union members receive greater compensation than non-union workers for the same job in the same locale is like saying water is wet.

Maybe you Koch toadies should just stick to the criticisms of unions that are valid. The ridiculous overreach is a bad look.

You still don't get/wont accept that 'teh evil' Koch Industries pay their employees a "livable" wage (I don't really care what city it's in) while SEIU doesn't .

I'm a union member and have no ties or loyalties to Koch and its plain as day to see that you're hifing behind the same trope that big business uses (total compensation, market forces) without even knowing if SEIU has a great benis plan.


You have to see the irony of the union organizer calling out someone for working for Koch while not living up to their own supposed standards of valuing labor ($15/hr).