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Senate voted 80-17 to confirm Hilda Solis as President Obama's Secretary of Labor
Hilda Solis Confirmed YES!
Dear Employee Free Choice Act Now . Org,
I am pleased to report that earlier today, the Senate voted 80-17 to confirm Hilda Solis as President Obama's Secretary of Labor. I strongly supported her confirmation.
Secretary Solis comes from a proud union family, and has been fighting for the rights of workers her entire career. She understands the difficult issues facing our economy, and I have every confidence that she will work tirelessly at the Labor Department to make sure working families are not left behind.
At a time when we have 11 million workers unemployed in America, it is inexcusable that her nomination was held up due to partisan politics. I am glad the Senate was finally able to move her nomination forward, and I look forward to working with her on the issues that are so important to Michigan's working families.
As always, please don't hesitate to contact my office if we can be of assistance to you or your family.
Sincerely,
Debbie Stabenow
United States Senator
http://efcanow.blogspot.com/
http://www.employeefreechoiceactnow.org
Tags: Employee Free Choice Act, Free Choice Act, EFCA, Hilda Solis, Senate, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Labor Union News, Labor Union
I am pleased to report that earlier today, the Senate voted 80-17 to confirm Hilda Solis as President Obama's Secretary of Labor. I strongly supported her confirmation.
Secretary Solis comes from a proud union family, and has been fighting for the rights of workers her entire career. She understands the difficult issues facing our economy, and I have every confidence that she will work tirelessly at the Labor Department to make sure working families are not left behind.
At a time when we have 11 million workers unemployed in America, it is inexcusable that her nomination was held up due to partisan politics. I am glad the Senate was finally able to move her nomination forward, and I look forward to working with her on the issues that are so important to Michigan's working families.
As always, please don't hesitate to contact my office if we can be of assistance to you or your family.
Sincerely,
Debbie Stabenow
United States Senator
http://efcanow.blogspot.com/
http://www.employeefreechoiceactnow.org
Tags: Employee Free Choice Act, Free Choice Act, EFCA, Hilda Solis, Senate, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Labor Union News, Labor Union
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§Finally!
It will be great to actually have a Pro-Labor Secretary at DOL for a change! . Let me add my hope that Ms. Solis looks within the DOL, specifically the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, as a place where major clean-up needs to take place. I was employed there 8 years - 4 under the Bush Administration with Secretary Elaine Chao, and witnessed this program for injured Federal Employees go from bad to worse. The guidelines of being impartial and non-adversarial went out the window, as more quotas and numeric “standards” were put in place, creating conflicts of interest. An Examiner’s evaluations, chance for promotion, and piece of the bonus pie depended on how well s/he played the “numbers game”. So much energy was focused on reducing the rolls, and for Examiners already overburdened with huge caseloads, the pressure was great to take shortcuts. I saw this happen often, and tried my best to not work that way, but ran into conflicts with Management when I spoke out against adversarial adjudication practices. This was quite a stressful situation, when my own Supervisor would parrot “Deny now, they have their appeal rights.” I believe Ms. Solis needs to clean up OWCP, from DC, down to the District and Regional levels, including all Supervisors who enforced and/or encouraged adversarial adjudication procedures. Our Federal Employees deserve better. I realize the Secretary wil have her hands full with many issues, but truly hope genuine reform finally comes to OWCP.
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