{"id":1006393,"date":"2019-09-19T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1006393"},"modified":"2019-09-19T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:10:23","slug":"trumps-labor-nominee-betrays-his-promises-to-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-labor-nominee-betrays-his-promises-to-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Labor Nominee Betrays His Promises To Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trump\u2019s nominee for Secretary of Labor has already betrayed Trump\u2019s promises to workers. As he testifies at his confirmation hearing today, here\u2019s a look at Eugene Scalia\u2019s long record of working against workers\u2019 interests in favor of Wall Street and big corporations:<\/p>\n

Scalia has made a career of looking out for big businesses, not workers.<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cEugene Scalia, whom president Trump intends to nominate as labor secretary, is often hired by companies when they are sued by workers, or when they want to push back against new employment laws and regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cThe acting Labor secretary, Pat Pizzella, is a former lobbyist and Trump\u2019s pick to run the department, Eugene Scalia, also is an ex-lobbyist \u2026 His financial disclosure report lists 49 clients who paid him $5,000 or more for legal services, including e-cigarette giant Juul Labs, Facebook, Walmart and Bank of America. Disclosure records show Scalia was registered in 2010 and 2011 to lobby for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cBut it was through his campaign against the ergonomics rule that Mr. Scalia earned his reputation as a free-market conservative and union antagonist.\u00a0 He frequently dismissed the link between repetitive motion and physical ailments suffered by workers, writing in a Cato Institute publication that disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome are \u2018purportedly\u2019 caused by typing and asserting that \u2018ergonomists cannot establish in any given case whether an ailment was caused by work or by genetic factors or other activities, such as sports.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Scalia\u2019s client roster is packed with corporations that have battled unions and sought to scuttle stricter labor laws.<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cMr. Scalia also defended Boeing in a politically charged case. A union representing the company\u2019s workers in Washington State argued that Boeing had violated labor law by threatening to open another assembly plant in South Carolina unless the union agreed to a no-strike clause in its contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cWhen a court ruled that blackjack and other card dealers at Steve Wynn’s Las Vegas resorts did not have to share their tips with supervisors, the casino turned to a renowned corporate attorney in Washington: Eugene Scalia.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cMr. Scalia had weighed in frequently against the rule, deriding the rationale for it as \u2018unreliable science.\u2019 \u2026But it was through his campaign against the ergonomics rule that Mr. Scalia earned his reputation as a free-market conservative and union antagonist.\u00a0 He frequently dismissed the link between repetitive motion and physical ailments suffered by workers, writing in a Cato Institute publication that disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome are \u2018purportedly\u2019 caused by typing and asserting that \u2018ergonomists cannot establish in any given case whether an ailment was caused by work or by genetic factors or other activities, such as sports.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Time and again, Scalia has worked on behalf of big business and Wall Street to fight policies that help workers and their families.<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cSince leaving the government, Scalia has helped Wall Street firms push back against financial oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cScalia also led the charge to roll back the so-called fiduciary standard. That rule, which originated at the Labor Department, would have required managers of a 401(k) to act in the best interests of their clients, instead of steering them into higher-fee funds that are more profitable for the fund managers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cHe also helped win a case against federal regulators on behalf of MetLife, the global insurance firm, arguing it should be exempt from stricter oversight imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act, President Barack Obama\u2019s legislation to rein in Wall Street after the 2008 financial crash.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big companies have repeatedly turned to Scalia to fight employees\u2019 workplace harassment and discrimination claims.<\/p>\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cScalia has represented a range of corporate clients in complaints related to workplace sexual harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cIn these and other lawsuits involving his clients, Mr. Scalia has \u2018consistently sought to narrow A.D.A. protections on a variety of issues, including the definition of disability and class certification\u2019 Douglas Kruse and Lisa Schur, two experts on the employment of people with disabilities at Rutgers University, said in an email.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s nominee for Secretary of Labor has already betrayed Trump\u2019s promises to workers. As he testifies at his confirmation hearing today, here\u2019s a look at Eugene Scalia\u2019s long record of working against workers\u2019 interests in favor of Wall Street and big corporations: Scalia has made a career of looking out for big businesses, not workers. 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