From The New York Times: Trump Finds a Brawler for His War on Workers
Berry Craig
America’s working class is in desperate shape, and its longtime protectors — unions — have lost much of their power.
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
President Trump talks a good game about helping American workers but has pursued arguably the most anti-labor agenda of any modern president. Now he has doubled down by choosing for secretary of labor a corporate lawyer who has spent his career battling workers.
This is a bit like nominating Typhoid Mary to be health secretary.
The official mission of the Labor Department emphasizes the promotion of “the welfare of the wage earners,” but Trump’s mission has been to promote the exploitation of wage earners.