DOL Chief Slammed Online

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Nearly 20,000 people have participated in an email campaign denouncing Secretary of Labor and Bush crony Elaine Chao's attacks on workers' rights, reports the Shame on Elaine website. The campaign and AFGE Local 12 - which represents Department of Labor (DOL) workers - are working to mobilize support from DOL workers, who recently beat attempts to outsource hundreds of jobs within the DOL (AFGE Blocks DOL Outsourcing 7/11/07 UC) and held an action to highlight Secretary Chao's anti-worker statements last July in Parade Magazine (DOL Workers Want Chao to Come Clean on Comments 7/18/07 UC). The site has also received "hundreds of visits from users inside the Department of Labor," reports Liz Cattaneo of American Rights at Work. Click here to participate in the campaign.