Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for secretary of labor\u2014fast food CEO Andrew Puzder\u2014would be a disaster for working Americans. He\u2019s railed against a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, opposed expanding overtime pay and supported replacing working people with machines. Of his Carl\u2019s Jr. and Hardee\u2019s restaurants that were investigated for labor law complaints, 60% were found to have violated the law. Most of these complaints were for failure to pay workers minimum wage or overtime.<\/p>\n
Now, this guy could be in charge of enforcing our nation\u2019s labor laws.<\/p>\n
Take Action: Click here to add your name to urge your members of Congress to oppose Andrew Puzder for secretary of labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for secretary of labor\u2014fast food CEO Andrew Puzder\u2014would be a disaster for working Americans. He\u2019s railed against a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, opposed expanding overtime pay and supported replacing working people with machines. Of his Carl\u2019s Jr. and Hardee\u2019s restaurants that were investigated for labor law complaints, 60% were found … Continue reading “Tell Your Legislators to Oppose Trump\u2019s Nominee for Labor Secretary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-political-action"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}