Punching In: DOL Chief’s Role in Union Disputes Under Scrutiny

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

Questions for Walsh|Congress’ Labor Plans

Rebecca Rainey: House Education and Labor Committee ranking member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) is pressing the Labor Department for more details about Labor Secretary Marty Walsh’s participation in union disputes.

Foxx is requesting, for the third time, information on whether Walsh sought ethics advice from the Office of Legal Counsel before joining workers in a picket line outside a Pennsylvania Kellogg’s plant last year. Foxx said Walsh had agreed to release the information when she asked him about it directly at a June hearing, but has yet to receive it. ...