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(35,332 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)You'll need some long solid years in the Union trenches to be included on this fine list:
Show your creds!
Department of Labor
For union members the Labor Department is probably the most important agency within the federal government.
The team at the Department of Labor will be responsible for reviewing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the National Mediation Board, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, the Railroad Retirement Board, and the National Labor Relations Board. Signifying the Departments importance Biden appointed the most union officials in this Department including:
*Jennifer Abruzzo, former general counsel to the NLRB and currently the special counsel for strategic initiatives with the Communications Workers of America (CWA)
*Jessica Chu, Chief of Staff and Special Counsel to the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
*Micheal Hazard, United Associations (UA) Veterans in Piping Program Administrator
*Nadia Marin-Molina, Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), a group that organizes and helps day laborers, migrant and low wage workers.
*Shaun OBrien, Assistant Director of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)s Research of Collective Bargaining Services division.
*Patricia Smith, senior counsel for the union affiliated National Employment Law Project (NELP). Before that Smith worked for President Obama as a solicitor of labor.
*Lynn Rhineheart, senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and the former general counsel for the AFL-CIO
*Other people added to the committee include former Labor Department and OSHA officials as well as state labor department officials.
The Department of Labor team is being run by Chris Lu, who was the former Deputy Secretary of Labor under President Barack Obama.
Union officials were also appointed to 14 other review teams, showing the expanse reach of unions and the immense knowledge that union leaders and staffers bring. Below are the labor appointments.
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BRAVO! President Joe Biden...
Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Unions have traditionally been a reliable bastion of the Democratic base. About damned time they started making a comeback!
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)is from a major Union.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Best thing to happen to American workers .
The Koch Repubs have a history of union busting.
Joe's about to fix that problem.
"The Middle Class built America & Unions built the Middle Class!" ~joe biden
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Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Biden's transition team is better than the whole Trump administration has been for 4 years.
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)The thought of organized labor having a big seat at the table in the Biden administration makes me happy in the pants.