{"id":653,"date":"2010-03-02T15:39:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:41:17","slug":"obama-s-labor-department-is-serious-about-ethics-except-when-it-isn-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/obama-s-labor-department-is-serious-about-ethics-except-when-it-isn-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Labor Department Is Serious About Ethics\u2026 Except When It Isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOver at BigGovernment.com<\/a>, Don Loos of National Right to Work examines the abysmal record of the Obama Department of Labor when it comes to enforcing the Administration’s ethics policy against union officials:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn January 8th<\/sup>, BigGovernment.com posted a blog that began<\/a>, \u201cOutrageously, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Hilda Solis and other DOL Obama appointees appear to have blatantly disregarded the President\u2019s Executive Order #13490 \u2013 the Ethics Pledge.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSomebody at the U.S. Department of Labor must be reading BigGovernment.com because just 11 days after the posting, the DOL ethics officer wrote a letter to The National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix and provided copies of signed \u201cEO 13490 ethics pledges.\u201d\u00a0 (See related Foundation ongoing lawsuit against DOL<\/a> for DOL\u2019s failure to comply with the Freedom of Information Act.) Each of these newly provided pledges matched the ethics order language (more on this in another post) unlike the self-administered waivers included in the publicly distributed pledges provided to ProPublica.org and referenced in the earlier blog.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition, the DOL ethics officer asserted that 51 people at the DOL have signed the ethics pledge and there has been only one (1) ethics waiver issued by DOL and that was for Naomi Walker.\u00a0 Her Job:\u00a0Big Labor Liaison (an Associate Deputy Secretary position). Her past experience includes a stint as an AFL-CIO lobbyist among others.\u00a0Walker\u2019s ethics waiver is the subject of this blog.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWalker\u2019s ethics waiver and its accompanying explanatory memo was approved \u201cafter consultation with the Counsel to the President\u201d expose The President\u2019s Ethics Executive Order for the joke that it is.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ethics officer provides a four-page memo<\/a> (probably written in a large part by the Counsel to the President) to justify the reasons that Walker must be provided an ethics waiver of Obama\u2019s ethics executive order.\u00a0\u00a0 My summary of the memo follows:\n\t<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Counsel to President Obama and the Department of Labor reached the conclusion that it would be impossible for Walker not to violate the Ethics Order because of her previous positions with the AFL-CIO; therefore, she must be granted an ethics waiver so that she can do the job for which she was appointed.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWasn\u2019t the reason for the ethics pledge to prevent appointing someone to a position where their previous employer could greatly benefit with them as a government insider?\n\t<\/p>\n

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\nContinue reading the post here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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\nOver at BigGovernment.com<\/a>, Don Loos of National Right to Work examines the abysmal record of the Obama Department of Labor when it comes to enforcing the Administration’s ethics policy against union officials:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn January 8th<\/sup>, BigGovernment.com posted a blog that began<\/a>, \u201cOutrageously, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Hilda Solis and other DOL Obama appointees appear to have blatantly disregarded the President\u2019s Executive Order #13490 \u2013 the Ethics Pledge.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nObama\u2019s Labor Department Is Serious About Ethics\u2026 Except When It Isn't - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/blog\/obama-s-labor-department-is-serious-about-ethics-except-when-it-isn-t\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama\u2019s Labor Department Is Serious About Ethics\u2026 Except When It Isn't - 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