Recently, Nathan Mehrens has described Thomas Perez as being too radical for the Department of Labor.  Yesterday, Marsha Blackburn and Nathan Mehrens called on Sen. Alexander to closely scrutinize Thomas Perez before confirming him as the next Secretary of Labor. There’s an old adage that personnel is policy and that no man is above the law. That’s why President Barack Obama’s [...]

“Thomas Perez has both a troubling record of mismanagement and a radical leftist agenda that he is bent on imposing without regard for the law. His nomination should be rejected.”—Bill Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government On March 19, 2013 President Obama nominated Thomas Perez to become the next Secretary of the Department of Labor. Much has been written about [...]

Barack Obama has just announced that Hilda Solis is resigning from her post as the Secretary of the Department of (Big) Labor. According to a Politico breaking news alert: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is resigning from the Obama administration. “Over her long career in public service – as an advocate for environmental justice in California, state legislator, member of Congress [...]

By Rick Manning — President Ronald Reagan famously said, “Personnel is policy,” and not surprisingly, he was 100 percent right. That’s why Americans for Limited Government urged Senators Jon Tester to oppose the nomination of Patricia Smith to the office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor. As the Solicitor Patricia Smith approves every single regulation that goes through the [...]

The unemployment report is up to 8.3 percent. Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government responded: The economic bad news of Obama’s failed economic plan keeps cascading down on the American people.  Today’s unemployment rate of 8.3 percent is shocking in that it is not higher.  With the nation’s economy staggering as it only grows by .125 percent each [...]

Take a look at the latest Obama nominee, Erica Groshen, who could soon be running the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Erica Groshen Report

By Adam Bitely — The regulatory nightmare that has developed out of the Obama administration since taking office in 2009 has finally caught up with them. The Obama administration ordered that all federal construction projects that exceeds $25 million must have a project-labor agreement (PLA). A PLA is an order from the government that sets the conditions for the construction [...]

By Rick Manning — Astonishingly, the unemployment rate dropped again in April even though there are 169,000 fewer Americans employed than in March.   Equally incredibly, in spite of there being more than 8 million more people in the working age population, 319,000 fewer Americans have jobs today than when Obama took office. To make matters worse, 522,000 Americans dropped out [...]

By Rebecca DiFede — Have you ever been standing outside in your garden and wondered if it was hot out? If you are confused by that statement, congratulations! You’re not a cyborg. However the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has made an app that is apparently made for robots who are unable to feel temperature, [...]

By Rebecca DiFede — The Department of Labor (DOL) is at it again with another regulation that can only be described as inane. The proposed rule deals with the domestic service provided to employers who are aged or who have become infirm and thus need companions to assist in their general care. Specifically, it wishes to make sure that the [...]