The North Mariana Islands are a US commonwealth, the government was able to produce goods with "Made in the USA" labels while escaping US minimum wage laws. Patrick Pizzella is Trump's pick for deputy secretary of labor, the second-ranking official in the Labor Department and was part of a lobbying company that was paid $6 million to prevent Congress from imposing such laws on the islands.
91 percent of the workers were immigrants from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, who were being paid about half of the US minimum wage to work 12-hour days, seven days a week. They were also forced to live behind barbed wire, in shacks that lacked proper plumbing.
Peter Robb is Trump's pick to be general counsel at the NLRB. In 1981, Robb helped Ronald Reagan bust the Air Traffic Controllers Union. Robb was the attorney who filed unfair labor practice charges against the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) on behalf of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) after a court ruled that the strike was not legal. PATCO was decertified, over 11,300 workers were fired, and Reagan banned most of the striking workers from federal employment forever. Not only was PATCO crushed, organized labor was dealt a blow that it has never entirely recovered from.
David Zatezalo is Trump's pick to be assistant secretary of labor overseeing the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Zatezalo is a former coal executive whose company, Rhino Resources, was cited for multiple safety violations. While he was executive, Rhino was issued two "pattern of violation" letters from MSHA. MSHA also sought a federal court injunction against the company in 2011 after it was discovered that workers at a Kentucky mine were being tipped off to inspections and, during that same year, the company paid out $44,500 in fines after a foreman was killed at a mine in Virginia. If confirmed, Zatezalo would not only oversee MSHA, he'd also be in charge of regulating the actions of the coal operators he used to work with.
Cheryl Stanton is Trump's pick for the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division administrator. A former Bush administration lawyer and current head of South Carolina's Department of Employment and Workforce, Stanton would enforce federal wage and overtime laws in her new role. Last year, Stanton was sued by a company for failing to pay her house cleaners. In April 2016, Bill Beckham, a former director of organizational integrity at Stanton's South Carolina agency, resigned from his position after claiming that she had instructed him to take action against an employee who didn't deserve it.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42431-meet-trump-s-anti-worker-labor-department-nominees
91 percent of the workers were immigrants from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, who were being paid about half of the US minimum wage to work 12-hour days, seven days a week. They were also forced to live behind barbed wire, in shacks that lacked proper plumbing.
Peter Robb is Trump's pick to be general counsel at the NLRB. In 1981, Robb helped Ronald Reagan bust the Air Traffic Controllers Union. Robb was the attorney who filed unfair labor practice charges against the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) on behalf of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) after a court ruled that the strike was not legal. PATCO was decertified, over 11,300 workers were fired, and Reagan banned most of the striking workers from federal employment forever. Not only was PATCO crushed, organized labor was dealt a blow that it has never entirely recovered from.
David Zatezalo is Trump's pick to be assistant secretary of labor overseeing the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Zatezalo is a former coal executive whose company, Rhino Resources, was cited for multiple safety violations. While he was executive, Rhino was issued two "pattern of violation" letters from MSHA. MSHA also sought a federal court injunction against the company in 2011 after it was discovered that workers at a Kentucky mine were being tipped off to inspections and, during that same year, the company paid out $44,500 in fines after a foreman was killed at a mine in Virginia. If confirmed, Zatezalo would not only oversee MSHA, he'd also be in charge of regulating the actions of the coal operators he used to work with.
Cheryl Stanton is Trump's pick for the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division administrator. A former Bush administration lawyer and current head of South Carolina's Department of Employment and Workforce, Stanton would enforce federal wage and overtime laws in her new role. Last year, Stanton was sued by a company for failing to pay her house cleaners. In April 2016, Bill Beckham, a former director of organizational integrity at Stanton's South Carolina agency, resigned from his position after claiming that she had instructed him to take action against an employee who didn't deserve it.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42431-meet-trump-s-anti-worker-labor-department-nominees
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