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Shame On Elaine' Site Details Chao's Disgraceful Record
Check out what's surely one of the Internet's most perfectly named websites – www.ShameOnElaine.org – and you'll get a good picture of the dismal 7-year record of Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao.
Created by American Rights at Work, the website tracks Chao's many anti-worker actions and the death and injury toll of workers who have suffered because of her department's lax enforcement of safety rules.
This week the site reported on the tragedy of the eighth worker to die after the recent sugar refinery explosion in Georgia. Authorities say the likely cause was combustible dust. Experts urged Chao in 2006 to issue safety rules on combustible dust but she failed to do so – just one of the safety issues she's ignored.
Among an exhaustive list of other worker insults, Chao put a pal from the ultra conservative Heritage Foundation on the DOL payroll – a man who wrote a report titled "How to close down the Department of Labor."
In announcing the site, ARAW Executive Director Mary Beth Maxwell said Chao has so far escaped the public's scrutiny. "Please join us in shaming Elaine and restoring the Department of Labor as an agency run on behalf of America's workers," she said.
Created by American Rights at Work, the website tracks Chao's many anti-worker actions and the death and injury toll of workers who have suffered because of her department's lax enforcement of safety rules.
This week the site reported on the tragedy of the eighth worker to die after the recent sugar refinery explosion in Georgia. Authorities say the likely cause was combustible dust. Experts urged Chao in 2006 to issue safety rules on combustible dust but she failed to do so – just one of the safety issues she's ignored.
Among an exhaustive list of other worker insults, Chao put a pal from the ultra conservative Heritage Foundation on the DOL payroll – a man who wrote a report titled "How to close down the Department of Labor."
In announcing the site, ARAW Executive Director Mary Beth Maxwell said Chao has so far escaped the public's scrutiny. "Please join us in shaming Elaine and restoring the Department of Labor as an agency run on behalf of America's workers," she said.