I know that must come as a shock to you, given the fact that 1 year ago, we found out that George Bush doesn’t care about black people!
It seems that the recess appointment of Paul DeCamp as head of the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, has set off the left. This memo from Rep. George Miller (D-CA), is what set the ball in motion.
“Enforcing the nation’s wage and hours laws is a critical task that ensures that employees are not cheated out of a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. The person in charge of enforcing wage and hour laws must be objective and willing to take on powerful employers if they are abusing the wage laws.
“As a lawyer, Paul DeCamp has never represented American workers in a single case. He has worked on behalf of Wal-Mart – a company with an abhorrent record of labor relations – and other companies against the interests of American workers and consumers in numerous cases. Yet he is the man that President Bush has chosen as one of the nation’s top enforcers of workplace rights. It’s no surprise that President Bush would appoint a corporate lawyer to a position intended to safeguard workers against corporate abuses. This recess appointment is one more reminder that the President does not care about making sure that workers are treated fairly on the job or enforcing laws that he doesn’t happen to like.â€
Rep. Miller is a union activist and has never tried to hide his contempt for Wal-Mart. Out of $356,655 in PAC contribution for the 2006 election cycle, he received $243,460 from unions.