Pro-Business US Labor Dept Nominee

I don't get how this guy, Paul DeCamp, whose a nominee for wage and hour administrator in the Labor Dept, can say he is "a committed supporter of laws that protect workers from unfair labor practices" when he even admits he's never even defended a worker in a lawsuit against an employer. The Labor Department is supposed to protect America's Labor force and he hasn't even done that.

Under his watch at the Labor Department "large numbers of temporary and immigrant workers were victimized by wage theft and other illegal practices -- in particular during the Gulf Coast cleanup after Hurricane Katrina."

This guy is not fit to work at the Labor Department. Not only has he never defended a worker in court, he's defended, Wal-mart whose range of labor abuses are numerous including that of child labor laws, against 1.6 million women alleging sexual harassment.

The AFL-CIO blog has more about this guy.

I wish the Washington Post article would've written more about this guy's anti-labor credentials.

The Bush administration has done alot to curb labor and its rights. The Department of Labor even gave Wal-Mart a sweet-heart deal when it broke child labor laws.