Labor Secretary’s Early Pandemic Calls Dominated by Business (1)

Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia‘s official calendar shows he listened to industry leaders far more often than worker representatives during the initial weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

Scalia had meetings, primarily by phone, with the chief executives of at least 16 business groups or individual companies during March compared with officials from just four unions, according to a review of his March 2020 calendar. His calendar for the first three months of the year was quietly posted on the Labor Department’s website Friday afternoon, marking the first disclosure of the labor secretary’s schedule for this year.

In the critical early ...