Truckers to POTUS: Withdraw DOL Nominee Julie Su
Lorena Gonzalez: ‘Julie Su Does It Again! (Now confirm her already!)’
By Katy Grimes, June 23, 2023 6:50 am
Thursday two starkly contrasting messages were sent about the stalled confirmation of Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, California’s failed former Labor and Workforce Development Agency Secretary.
It’s the independent truckers versus Lorena Gonzalez.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association sent a letter to President Biden imploring him to withdraw her nomination:
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association represents 150,000 owner-operators leased to motor carriers, small-business motor carriers with their own operating authority, and employee truck drivers. In the interest of preserving classification statuses that have long-benefitted our members, we call on you to withdraw the nomination of Ms. Julie Su to lead the U.S. Department of Labor.
Conversely, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, Director of the California Labor Federation sent out an email praising Julie Su:
Julie Su Does It Again! (Now confirm her already!)
No one in the California worker movement needs to be reminded why Julie Su is the most qualified candidate we may have ever had for US Labor Secretary. Her decades of work in the Golden State are beyond comparison. But, as Acting Secretary of Labor, she showed us once more. She helped mediate a contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association. Her incredible work helped avoid a shutdown of our California Ports and will keep Port workers on the job. Now, we are patiently awaiting her confirmation.
In Solidarity,
Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher
The truckers continued:
Thank you,
Todd Spencer
President & CEO
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc.
As the Globe has repeatedly observed, Julie Su has a lengthy career of failing up.
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The line between unionism and communism is very very thin.
See: California.
What a contrast! My money is on the independent truckers for this one, even considering all the Biden cabinet heedless-diving-into-disaster we’ve seen, and it is NOT on Julie “Fail-Up” Su NOR is it on shrew union hack Lorena “AB5 The Job Killer” Gonzalez.
Pulling for you and for rare good sense this time around, independent truckers.
I just retired at 72 and had planned to do some part time work without benefits for my prior company but am unable to do so due to AB5. A couple other employees that I worked with also retired but moved out of state and are able to do work for the company because they no longer live in CA. Of course, the silver lining is that I am going to pay a lot less in CA taxes.