DOL Workers Want Chao to Come Clean on Comments

Fresh from their victory over the attempted outsourcing of 250 Department of Labor jobs, DOL workers turned their attention today to cleaning up Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao’s recent comments about American workers. The workers – members of AFGE 12 – handed out bars of soap saying “Chao Thinks You Stink” and “Get Clean with Local 12” with copies of Chao’s Parade Magazine interview where she called American workers unhygienic, undisciplined, and poorly skilled. “Many contractors and managers are so intimidated that they will not take a bar of soap,” said AFGE 12 Human Rights Committee Chairperson Sarah Harper as she handed out soap and literature. “People are so fearful, they will not even take a copy of Chao’s statement,” said AFGE 12 Vice President Eleanor Lauderdale. “The most frightening thing in the federal workforce now is the fear. The fear of fact and truth,” added Lauderdale. AFGE 12 will hold a similar event Thursday at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (above and left) AFGE 12 member Michelle Leszkiewicz handing out soap to co-workers
-Report/photos by Andy Richards