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I have to say
"This is rich".
U.S. SECRETARY OF LABOR ACOSTA ANNOUNCES THE UPCOMING INDUCTION OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HALL OF HONOR
SIMI VALLEY, CA – Today, during remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced that U.S. President Ronald Reagan will be inducted into the U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor.
President Reagan is the only president of the United States to have led a major union. President Reagan’s membership in the Labor Hall of Honor recognizes his accomplishments as a labor leader. During a March 30, 1981, speech to the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, President Reagan remarked: "I hope you'll forgive me if I point with some pride to the fact that I'm the first president of the United States to hold a lifetime membership in an AFL-CIO union."
“Well before he led this nation, Ronald Reagan led the Screen Actors Guild during its first three strikes,” Secretary Acosta said. “As President of the Screen Actors Guild, President Reagan negotiated never-before-seen concessions for SAG members, which included residual payments and health and pension benefits. As President of this nation, Ronald Reagan continued to recognize the contributions of unions to a free society. His support for Solidarity in Poland prompted a flourishing of freedom that ultimately led to the collapse of Communism.”
The Hall of Honor was established in 1988 to honor Americans whose distinctive contributions have elevated working conditions, wages, and overall quality of life for American families.
The request for nomination was submitted by the Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City.
The induction ceremony will take place at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C.
OSEC News Release: 08/24/2017
Contact Name: Jillian Rogers
Email: rogers.jillian.b@dol.gov
Phone Number: (202) 693-4676
Release Number: 17-1172-NAT
SIMI VALLEY, CA – Today, during remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced that U.S. President Ronald Reagan will be inducted into the U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor.
President Reagan is the only president of the United States to have led a major union. President Reagan’s membership in the Labor Hall of Honor recognizes his accomplishments as a labor leader. During a March 30, 1981, speech to the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, President Reagan remarked: "I hope you'll forgive me if I point with some pride to the fact that I'm the first president of the United States to hold a lifetime membership in an AFL-CIO union."
“Well before he led this nation, Ronald Reagan led the Screen Actors Guild during its first three strikes,” Secretary Acosta said. “As President of the Screen Actors Guild, President Reagan negotiated never-before-seen concessions for SAG members, which included residual payments and health and pension benefits. As President of this nation, Ronald Reagan continued to recognize the contributions of unions to a free society. His support for Solidarity in Poland prompted a flourishing of freedom that ultimately led to the collapse of Communism.”
The Hall of Honor was established in 1988 to honor Americans whose distinctive contributions have elevated working conditions, wages, and overall quality of life for American families.
The request for nomination was submitted by the Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City.
The induction ceremony will take place at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C.
OSEC News Release: 08/24/2017
Contact Name: Jillian Rogers
Email: rogers.jillian.b@dol.gov
Phone Number: (202) 693-4676
Release Number: 17-1172-NAT
Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City
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Pres. Reagan’s support of the Solidarity union in Poland prompted a flourishing of freedom and led to the collapse of Communism.
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President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan’s legacy lives on @Reagan_Library.
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1. An insult to the labor movement & workers who have fought & died to protect the rights & lives of working people!
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Confined Space A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues: Acosta Names Ronald Reagan to Labor Hall of Honor
While it may go without saying, there’s probably no President in American history more reviled by worker advocates than Ronald Reagan.
So in what can only be seen as a gross insult to the American labor movement and workers who have fought — and often died — to protect the rights and lives of working people in this country, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta today named Reagan to the U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor.
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That would be the same Hall of Honor that honors Senator Ted Kennedy, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers (“I am a Man”), Cesar Chavez, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Frances Perkins and many others who were actual champions of workers.
And that would be the same Ronald Reagan, for those of you who were just born yesterday, who is best known in labor circles as the President who broke the 1981 PATCO strike, by firing over 11,000 air traffic controllers, and inviting American business to declare war on the labor movement, and war that continues to this day. Reagan was also no friend to workplace safety, cutting enforcement, launching anti-regulatory campaigns that seem familiar today, and appointing 35 year old construction executive Thorne Auchter to head OSHA:
While it may go without saying, there’s probably no President in American history more reviled by worker advocates than Ronald Reagan.
So in what can only be seen as a gross insult to the American labor movement and workers who have fought — and often died — to protect the rights and lives of working people in this country, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta today named Reagan to the U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor.
{snip}
That would be the same Hall of Honor that honors Senator Ted Kennedy, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers (“I am a Man”), Cesar Chavez, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Frances Perkins and many others who were actual champions of workers.
And that would be the same Ronald Reagan, for those of you who were just born yesterday, who is best known in labor circles as the President who broke the 1981 PATCO strike, by firing over 11,000 air traffic controllers, and inviting American business to declare war on the labor movement, and war that continues to this day. Reagan was also no friend to workplace safety, cutting enforcement, launching anti-regulatory campaigns that seem familiar today, and appointing 35 year old construction executive Thorne Auchter to head OSHA:
One of Auchter’s first actions was straight out of Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury’s classic named after the temperature at which a book will burn.) The Reagan administration began the day before the recently issued Cotton Dust standard was heard at the Supreme Court. For the business community, the cotton dust standard was symbolic of all that was wrong with Eula Bingham’s OSHA, and government regulation in general.
A week after his arrival, Auchter was shocked to find that the cover of an OSHA publication on Cotton Dust displayed a photograph by Earl Dotter of a cotton dust victim, Louis Harrell. Auchter, believing the cover to be inflammatory, ordered the remaining publications destroyed and reissued the document with no photo on the cover.
by making it a joke.
raygun was a vacuous, evil old bastard.
Ronald Reagan continued to recognize the contributions of unions to a free society."
Apparently Reagan didn't think the US was or should be a free society...
