Chao Urged to Clean Up Her Act

Workers at the Department of Labor (DOL) will have some good clean fun this week when they pass out bars of soap saying "Chao Thinks You Stink" and "Get Clean with Local 12".  The workers, members of AFGE Local 12, are responding to DOL Secretary Elaine Chao's recent comments in Parade Magazine that American workers need to improve their personal hygiene in order to be more competitive. "While we're having a little fun at the Secretary 's expense," said Local 12 President Alex Bastani, "what isn't funny is the Secretary's disdain for American workers." After all, Bastani notes, "This is the very same Secretary of Labor who denied over 2 million workers their right to overtime." Local 12 recently defeated an effort to privatize over 250 jobs at the DOL at both the regional level and in the Washington DC National office. Also featured at the Tuesday and Thursday events will be a bubble machine. Elaine Chao, photo courtesy of AFGE 12