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On Friday, October 9th, the Administration formally swore in a New Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the Department of Labor. What’s News about that? The New Assitant Secretary is a Member of SEIU. According to an Article on the SEIU Blog, T. Michael Kerr, was sworn in as the New Assistant Secretary for the Administration and Management at the Department of Labor. Here is T. Michael Kerr’s Bio, according to the March White House Press Release announcing his nomination:

The story in a nutshell: Bertha Lewis is the CEO of ACORN. In a review of Lewis’s contacts list, which was leaked to RedState, Bertha Lewis has the office, cell phone, home number, and private personal email address of Patrick Gaspard. Patrick Gaspard holds Karl Rove’s position in the White House and was Obama’s Political Director during the campaign. In addition to Patrick, Bertha has Patrick’s brother Michael in her rolodex. She lists Michael as working at the Advance Group. The Advance Group is ACORN’s lobbying organization. In other words, besides having Obama’s political director’s contact info, the political director’s...

Unions should be required to make public more details of their internal finances, the Labor Department said Thursday as it proposed new changes to union disclosure forms. Unions are required every year to file financial disclosure forms with the Labor Department. But federal officials are proposing a more detailed form, and penalizing small unions who get into trouble with the law by banning them from filing a simple form. The proposed changes will be printed on Monday in the federal register. "This proposed rule provides union members with more complete information about union finances and will better protect their legal...

<p>A months-long Senate fight over proposed new rules on overtime pay for U.S. workers is threatening to derail a high-priority bill aimed at ending trade sanctions by Europe that could eventually cost American exporters $4 billion a year.</p> <p>The bill to substitute corporate tax cuts for export subsidies that have been outlawed by the World Trade Organization has broad, bipartisan support in the Senate. But the Senate is more closely divided over a Democratic proposal to add a provision that would block a Bush administration proposal to reduce overtime pay protections for many white-collar workers.</p>

<p>Who says the war on terror isn't going well?</p> <p>To read the media reports, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao visited the AFL-CIO's winter meeting last week and raised hell. But what really happened is that she told America's labor leaders the truth about union corruption and they just thought it was hell.</p>