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eyeon08.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Promoted by Patrick. The Labor Department under Elaine Chao has been on the leading edge in shining the light on union corruption and waste through the LM-2 reports in which unions must submit detailed financial reports to the government. Watch for a President Obama to gut this program shortly after Inauguration Day. Should Obama win, there will have to be enormous pressure save the LM-2 and ensure...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao is scheduled to be in Boone County this afternoon to campaign for her husband, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell.
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FailedMessiah.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
The US Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao…
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Pol Watchers (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Kentucky Republican power couple U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao were on hand, along with more than 100 activists, to open the GOP's Fayette County office Saturday. The office, which the Republicans have dubbed their "Victory Volunteer Center" will serve as the hub for the GOP activists' door-to-door campaigning and phone calling on behalf of...
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Fact-esque (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Again, this comes from that edition of Thursday's WSJ that came into my hands and is news I haven't seen elsewhere (the possibility that the Vice Pres, Dick Cheney, may go to jail for bribery apparently isn't "newsworthy"): Elaine Chao's...
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Unbossed (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
On Friday August 29 Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao got an early start on her style of Labor Day celebration by issuing as final regulations, the controversial stealth regulations that will make it more - not less - difficult for OSHA to do the job Congress gave it under the Nixon administration . This is an update of events described in detail just a few days before Chao took this action. Details...
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The Pump Handle (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Will someone just go and put up a sign “Proudly Screwing Workers: 2,827 Straight Days” on the Labor Department building? Late yesterday I learned that Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Asst. Secretary Leon Sequeira and her other political minions sent a proposed rule to the Federal Register which will change the process by which OSHA and MSHA assess workers’ risk to health-harming contaminants. The [...]...
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Mock, Paper, Scissors (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to a historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday. The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 last year — the fewest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track in 1992. That’s down 6 percent from the 5,840 deaths reported [...]
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Fact-esque (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Yeah, after all the deaths and disasters, from Savannah's sugar refinery to the BP explosion to the Crandall Canyon cave-in and beyond, Elaine Chao, the LaborSec, has had the nerve to declare that her anti-safety, pro-corporate policy (which could be...
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The Pump Handle (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, her Solicitor and other political operatives in DOL continue to dismiss requests from Cong. George Miller (D-CA) and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) for documents related to the development of her draft risk assessment proposal. The latest non-response, dated Aug 5, refers five times to the almighty “deliberative process” as a reason for refusing to disclose [...]
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A Bluestem Prairie (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
This just in from Congressman Walz's office: COLEMAN, KLOBUCHAR, WALZ APPLAUD TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE BENEFITS FOR LAID OFF TRW WORKERS After sending a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Senators Norm Coleman, Amy Klobuchar and Congressman Tim Walz...
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Division of Labour (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Yours truly in Tuesday's WSJ: Thomas Frank ("Captives of the Meatpacking Archipelago," Tilting Yard, Aug. 6) says that Labor Secretary Elaine Chao "has held the line against card-check unionization" thereby "meet[ing] the strictest conservative standards" and resulting in illegal immigrants...
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Air America Radio - (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Labor Sec Elaine Chao's secret attempt to draft a new rule (a regulation , all you anti-regulatory Pubs out there) making it easier for corporations to enlarge the kinds and amounts of poison their workers are exposed to. Today we learned (in an email) that Rep George Miller, Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, has drafted legislation to stop that...
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Fact-esque (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Labor Sec Elaine Chao's secret attempt to draft a new rule (a regulation, all you anti-regulatory Pubs out there) making it easier for corporations to enlarge the kinds and amounts of poison...
