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Flashback: 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.
Today and Thursday, members of AFGE Local 12 in Washington, D.C., will be doing their part to clean up U.S. workers by passing out bars of soap at the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters. On one side, the soap is labeled, “Chao Thinks You Stink.” On the other side, “Clean Up with Local 12.”
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, says, while the soapy action may be fun,
what isn’t funny is the secretary’s disdain not only for workers at the Department of Labor but for all American workers.
Bastani 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. Don’t forget to wash behind your ears.
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MISS CHAO,,,,,HOPEFULLY WILL BE ALL WASHED UP WHEN KING GEORGE LOOSES HIS CROWN. OBVIOUSLY CHAO DOES NOT HAVE THE FAINTEST IDEA OF WHAT SWEAT REALLY IS. THE AMERICAN WORKERS SHOULD TELL CHAO TO KISS THEIR SWEATY ASS’S,,,,,,,INSTEAD OF KISSING KING GEORGE’S ASS ALL OF THE TIME.
I despise this Chinese woman who holds the longest cabinet position in the White House. Apparently, everything she has done and has spoken in the past clearly reflect her boss George W. She is nothing more a Bush lackey. This woman is obviously insensitive to the hardships faced by American workers. Her comment on Parade should be treated like Queen of France Marie Antoinette famous words “let them eat cake” and Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu infamous comment on a monk act of immolation as “a barbecue”. Someday, such careless words will come back to haunt Elaine Chao.
Hey chao,
What stinks most, and it’s pretty rotten, is your arrogance !!!! This is what really makes our country look great to other nations, having our leaders chop it down ! This country was built on the blood, SWEAT and tears of the workers not by pompous, bombastic ASS_ _ _ _ _ like you !!