Sign if you agree: Let’s select a Labor Secretary who hasn’t represented CEOs guilty of sexual harassment

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Friend,

I had the privilege of serving in President Obama’s Department of Labor and I saw firsthand the positive impact that the Secretary of Labor can have on the lives of millions of working people.

Sadly, the last two-and-a-half years have taken us in a very different direction. Since Trump has taken office, we’ve seen unrelenting attacks on worker protections, which fly in the face of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and much more.

We will not stand for a Secretary of Labor who attacks our most basic rights, siding consistently with big business over working people.

Read Thea’s email below, and then join the EPI Policy Center and our partners in opposing the nomination of Eugene Scalia as Secretary of Labor. ([link removed])

It’s up to us to hold our government and this administration to the highest standards, including defending the rights and protections that working people have fought for for generations.

Thank you,

Heidi Shierholz
Senior Economist and Director of Policy, EPI Policy Center
Tell the U.S. Senate:
“We demand that the U.S. Senate reject Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, who has spent his career putting corporate profits over workers’ rights and wages.”
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Friend,

Donald Trump has spent the first two-and-a-half years of his presidency undoing labor protections that have taken generations to build. Now, he’s nominated a Labor Secretary who has spent his career fighting for the interests of financial firms, corporate executives and shareholders rather than the interests of working people.

As a corporate attorney, Eugene Scalia has fought against the Department of Labor as he’s represented major corporations ranging from Walmart to Wall Street banks.

Join the EPI Policy Center and our partners in opposing Eugene Scalia as the next Secretary of the Department of Labor. Sign the petition today >>> ([link removed])

Whether it’s refusing to defend Obama-era overtime rules in federal court, resulting in over $1.6 billion in lost wages for working people; proposing a rule that would allow restaurant owners to steal the tips of millions of tipped workers; siding with big business over working people in workplace disputes ranging from fair pay to discrimination to sexual harassment, and much more―Donald Trump is pursuing one of the most hostile anti-labor agendas in modern history.

According to Politico, “Scalia has represented a range of corporate clients in complaints related to workplace sexual harassment.” In 2001, the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) stated in Scalia’s confirmation hearing during the George W. Bush administration, “[Scalia] has said that employers should not be strictly liable in sexual harassment cases unless they expressly endorse the conduct of the harasser.”[1]

In the midst of the #MeToo movement and at a time when workers’ rights are under constant attack, we must demand a Labor Secretary who stands up for the rights of all working people―not one who defends misogyny and corporate greed.

Join the EPI Policy Center and our partners in calling on the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Eugene Scalia as the next Secretary of Labor. ([link removed])

In solidarity,

Thea Lee
President, EPI Policy Center

[1] "Eugene Scalia’s challenge: Fiery old writings in a new era of #MeToo," Politico, July 25, 2019
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