Department of Labor
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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Julie Su is the most qualified candidate to be Secretary of Labor and best choice to advance President Joe Biden’s agenda for an inclusive economy. Su is a nationally recognized expert on workers’ rights and civil rights who has dedicated her distinguished legal career to advancing justice on behalf of poor and disenfranchised communities.In her 17 years as a civil rights lawyer, Su brought landmark lawsuits in coalitions representing African American, Latino, Asian American, and...

20 April, 2023

U.S. Department of Labor | October 26, 2021 Secretary of Labor Walsh to visit Kellogg workers’ Pennsylvania picket line Will meet with union leadership; hear concerns of workers WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, Oct. 27, U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh will meet with leaders and workers of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union on a picket line at The Kellogg Company’s cereal manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  On Oct. 5, the one-year extension of a five-year master...

26 October, 2021

For four years, the Department of Labor has been devoted to serving a handful of elite interests, instead of working people. Not anymore. The Senate has confirmed Marty Walsh as labor secretary. As a former union member, he understands the power of collective action, and his confirmation strengthens our fight to improve the lives of working people across the country. We’re going to protect workers from COVID-19. We’re going to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. We’re going...

22 March, 2021

We need a labor secretary who is truly committed to upholding the Department’s mission—“to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.” Eugene Scalia has fought against workers’ interests his whole career. As a corporate lawyer, Scalia has a long track record of putting corporate interests above workers’ rights, and undermining worker...

17 September, 2019

The withdrawal of Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder is being hailed as a victory for America's workers. From coast to coast, workers made thousands of calls, attended mass rallies and demonstrations and met with their Senators to expose Puzder's record of driving down wages, harassment and worker intimidation. Puzder’s anti-worker views are no secret. He railed against a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, opposed expanding overtime pay and advocated replacing working people with machines. Of...

16 February, 2017

Read this Daily Comment column in The New Yorker by writer William Finnegan: Donald Trump has chosen a fast-food executive, Andy Puzder, to be his Labor Secretary. Puzder, the C.E.O. of the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, was a heavy donor to the Trump campaign. He is a prominent opponent of raising the minimum wage, of paid sick leave, of efforts to raise the salary threshold for overtime pay, and of...

14 December, 2016

12.5 Million Americans: the number of people that the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates will be effected by President Obama’s changes to the overtime rule. Under the direction of President Obama, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will update the threshold for salaried workers who automatically qualify for overtime when they work more than 40 hours a week. “We’re making more workers eligible for the overtime that you’ve earned. And it’s one of the single most important...

18 May, 2016

March 23/Erin Johansson If an entire industry existed with the sole purpose of interfering with a federally protected right, isn’t it common sense that our federal government should want to keep tabs on it? Thankfully, the Obama administration just released a rule that will step up federal monitoring of employers who hire unionbusting consultants. Unionbusters profit from telling companies how to stop working people from coming together in union to improve their workplaces. When faced with an...

24 March, 2016