As President-elect Barack Obama considers appointments to major cabinet positions, word from Washington suggests that former Democrat leaders Dick Gephardt and David Bonior are being considered to head the Department of Labor.
Gephardt, of course, has long-standing ties to the union bosses. He was always a top recipient of Big Labor’s political largess as a member of the House of Representatives, and when Gephardt ran for President, most Big Labor bosses endorsed his run and over 800 union organizers were sent to Iowa to assist his campaign. He opposed the Right to Work and every other measure to bring accountability to the worker-union boss relationship.
As bad as Gephardt is for workers, Bonior could be worse — if that is possible.
Thanks to the Committee's election-year program, union-label candidates like Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.) are being given a choice: pledge to change course and support Right to Work going forward, or face the potential political consequences.
Biden judicial nominee Nicole Berner has a track record of mindlessly repeating union bosses’ anti-Right to Work diatribes and defending their schemes to profit at the expense of the disabled.
National Right to Work Foundation Comments: DOL lacks authority to enforce pro-union boss regulation over temporary agricultural workers