Vote for Elaine Chao's Dirtiest Deeds

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao has disgraced the agency she oversees by stripping workers of basic protections and promoting corporate interests.

From the tallied votes so far, her top three misdeeds are:

  1. Against Workers' Rights
  2. Safety
  3. Corporate Cronies

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Overtime
Fines
Safety
Personal Gain
Self-Promotion
Corporate Cronies
Wrong Priorities
Cover Up
Missing Deadlines
Against Workers' Rights

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Overtime: Supported policies that would cut 8 million workers' overtime pay.
Against Workers' Rights: Actively campaigned against the Employee Free Choice Act – bipartisan legislation that restores the rights of workers to freely and fairly form unions.
Fines: Failed to issue fines for more than 4,000 mine safety violations.
Safety: Refused to enforce rules requiring employers to pay for safety gear – contributing to 400,000 workers injured and 50 dead.
Personal Gain: Forced longshoremen back to work without a contract, when their walkout could have cost her family's shipping company millions of dollars.
Self-Promotion: Used tax dollars to line the walls of the Labor Department with 58 pictures of herself, embroider her name on lanyards and fleece blankets, and hand out Elaine-themed gold-colored coins at public events.
Corporate Cronies: Fast-tracked coal mining executives, anti-union lawyers, and shady lobbyists to positions of power in her agency – including one who wrote a report titled "How to Close Down the Department of Labor".
Wrong Priorities: Increased the budget of the paperwork-promoting "Office of Labor Management Standards" by 20 percent while cutting key safety programs.
Cover Up: Stonewalled Congressional investigations into mine safety failures, even forcing Congress to issue subpoenas on the Crandall Canyon Mine disasters.
Missing Deadlines: Failed to implement new rules on mine safety by the legal deadline.


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