Senate's rejection of a Labor Department nominee is horrible news for American workers

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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-27/column-the-senate-rejection-of-a-labor-department-nominee-is-horrible-news-for-american-workers

President Biden’s nomination of David Weil as head of the Labor Department’s all-important Wage and Hour Division died on April 7 when Weil voluntarily withdrew his name from consideration. From Weil’s vantage point, the confirmation process following his June 3 nomination had been long, drawn-out and wholly dispiriting.

Having earlier served in the job during the Obama administration, Weil came under ferocious attack by business interests and Republicans from the start, because they knew of his commitment to enforcing the labor laws on the books and the court rulings that have upheld them.

At the end, his abandonment by three Senate Democrats (Manchin, Sinema, and Kelly) sealed his fate. “I could see there was no pathway” to confirmation, Weil told me recently. The public announcement of Weil’s withdrawal came the day that Ketanji Brown Jackson won confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, so it went almost unnoticed.

But it deserved to be more widely marked, because the loss of his nomination points to a greater setback for many battles for worker rights — among them the fight for fair pay and the right to unionize, and efforts against wage theft and workplace discrimination. Moreover, Weil’s loss was a blow for Biden, who is certainly the most pro-labor president in decades, perhaps ever.

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[JT45242]

1. So manchin endorses one trump humper but opposes a

Nominee who would actually fight for the working people of W Virginia.

Along with Sinema if course. You remember her , she said she stood against big corporations when people from DU worked for her campaign and donated money.

The oligarchs have spoken, they have bought their stooges to ensure that regulatory agencies and the labor department will not be able to function against them.

Manchin will stall whomever is nominated next to make certain that nothing is able to be done to those coal companies and other companies that bought his allegiance so that nothing can happen unless the actual number of democratic senators is 53 and his and jean vest lady are irrelevant.

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2. biden should take ONE page from tdg's playbook- actings

these stalled appointments NEED to be filled. he should just put these ppl in as acting NOW and worry about confirming later.