Labor Secretary Boosts Unions, Praises New Models of Organizing
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Oct. 28, 2014 | U.S. LABOR | For Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, unions represent what's right with the U.S. In a stem-winding speech at the National Press Club on Oct. 22, Perez, who grow up in a working-class family in Buffalo, declared unions are responsible for creating and sustaining the middle class. And the decline in unions is bad for the nations, he said. Perez' remarks are notable because…[he] has been backing the words by acting a wide range of labor law enforcement issues, unveiling job health and safety rules and cracking down on worker misclassification, for example…"Worker voice can take many forms, one of the most important being membership in a union," he said. Full story here.
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