Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Labor Secretary: American Workers Stink





No, dudes, cologne won't wipe out funk! Chao wants you to bathe. Geez, now we have the Dept. of Labor tell us to bathe!!!


From Crooks and Liars:


AFL-CIOblog:
High school gym, where listening to lectures on personal hygiene was part of the package. It’s one thing for a gym teacher to tell a bunch of sweaty teenagers to hit the showers. But it’s something quite different when the U.S. secretary of labor tells Parade magazine-a national weekly read by millions of Americans-the nation’s workers need a bath if they want to keep their jobs.[..]


Chao told Parade it’s not just the low-cost of foreign labor that is enticing many U.S. employers to ship jobs overseas-overseas workers dress and bathe better.


Beyond the cheaper cost of labor, U.S. employers say that many workers abroad simply have a better attitude toward work. “American employees must be punctual, dress appropriately and have good personal hygiene,” says Chao.


Alex Bastani, AFGE Local 12 president,[..] noted that in 2004, Chao’s Labor Department changed the rules on who qualifies for overtime pay and millions of workers were robbed of their rights to overtime pay. Just this year, she tried to outsource some 250 Department of Labor jobs but was unsuccessful.

And I would be remiss to not remind you who is Chao’s (presumably clean-smelling) husband


And I have to remember to wash the important parts so that Chao doesn't detect funk!!! Chao should take a box of soap to the GOP because there is certainly a big stick among the GOP with scandals. All of the soap in the world won't clean all the filth in the Grand Obstruction Party!



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